Internet search up 55 percent in December 2005

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Internet search up 55 percent in December 2005

February 14, 2006

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Nielsen//NetRating's latest research shows that the number of Internet searches is increasing at a very healthy pace.

There were approximately 5.1 billion searches in December of last year, an increase of 55 percent from the almost 3.3 billion searches made in December of 2004.

Of this, the number of Internet users rose only 3 percent, indicating that searching is becoming a significant and growing online activity.

Google remained the top search engine, and even increased its dominance, accounting for nearly 49% of all searches.

Most of this gain came at the expense of MSN, which saw its search share decline from 14% to under 11%. Yahoo! essentially held steady. The three top sites handled over 81% of all searches.

Google increased its market share even though all three top search engines were used for more searches. Google's growth was strong enough that its competitors' market share declined.

In fact, the market leader saw the number of searches conducted through its site rise by over 1 million between December 2004 and December 2005, a change of 75%.

Yahoo was used for 53% more searches in 2005 than in 2004, and MSN for 20% more.

Source: eMarketer

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