Google tops the US search market

April 9, 2009

Hitwise has released an new report on the US search market. As expected, Google has the lions share of searches with 72.39%, Yahoo comes in a distant second with 16.36% and Microsoft with only 5.50%. Ask improved slightly month-to-month with 4.07% but remains down year-to-year.

Source: Hitwise

Percentage of US searches among leading search engine providers
Domain	March 2008	February 2009	March 2009	Year-to-year % change
www.google.com	67.28%	72.11%	72.39%	8%
search.yahoo.com	20.30%	17.04%	16.36%	-19%
search.msn.com	6.65%	5.56%	5.50%	-17%
www.ask.com	4.10%	3.74%	4.07%	-1%