Americans Conduct 6.4 Billion Searches in June
An article on ZDNET into the number of searches confirms that searching is still going strong and the small decline is simply down to seasons.
The most interesting figures in the article relate to the number of searches on the major search engines.
June 2006
Google 2.9 Billion
Yahoo! 1.8 Billion
MSN 818 Million
This confirms that around 95% of searches are carried out either on Google or Yahoo! making them the first port of call in any online marketing strategy.
Original Article..
6.4 bln searches in June 2006 by ZDNet’s ZDNet Research — Americans conducted 6.4 bln searches in June 2006, a 6% decline from May 2006 (6.8 bln searches), but a 29-percent increase over June 2005 (5.0 bln searches), comScore says. The decline in search volume from May is considered to be mainly a seasonal effect [...]
