Top U.S. Search Engines September 2008 – Hitwise
The top U.S. search engine in September 2008 according to Hitwise is once again Google. The dominant search leader increased its share of searches in September to 71.16%, a slight .15% increase over August. Statistics reported by Hitwise are based on the period of four weeks that concluded on September 27, 2008.
Yahoo’s www.search.yahoo.com stats came in at 18.06% which is a .20% decrease from the prior month. MSN’s search.msn.com (redirects to www.live.com) came in at 4.22% or down .03%. The fourth position was captured by Ask at www.ask.com which followed with 3.63% or an increase of .18% over August’s search share .
Illustrated below is a search engine pie chart for the month of September 2008 with the top four U.S. search engines and their search share percentages according to Hitwise.
About Hitwise
An Experian company that focuses in Internet competitive intelligence, Hitwise was founded in 1997. Utilizing software and relationships with ISPs throughout the world, Hitwise is able to anonymously capture online behavior of Internet users. The data collected includes the number of page visits and the average length of those visits from 10 million in the U.S. and 25 million people worldwide.