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Top Global Search Engines August 2008 – Market Share

If your Internet marketing plans include promoting your Web site throughout the world, an analysis of the world’s leading search engines is an important factor when executing those marketing plans.

According to Market Share by Net Applications, the top global search engine for the month of August was Google with an astounding share of 79.03%. Yahoo came in second by capturing 11.58% and MSN placed third globally with 3.46% of the world’s search engine market share.

The pie chart below shows the top six global search engines with the percentages of the search share for August 2008 as reported by Market Share.

Top Global Search Engines August 2008 – Market Share

Other: is a combined percentage of the search engines AltaVista, Excite, All the Web and Lycos.


About Market Share by Net Applications

Market Share by Net Applications was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. The company is a leading source of Internet information and collects data from approximately 160 million visitors per month which has been used by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, InformationWeek and more.

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