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May 20, 2008

Nielsen Online Releases April 2008 U.S. Search Rankings

Nielsen Online has announced its April 2008 search share data for the U.S. Let's dive right into the numbers:

Google - 62% market share, up 35.4% year-over-year
Yahoo - 17.5% market share, down 3.4% year-over-year
MSN/Live Search - 9.7% market share, up 30% year-over-year
AOL - 4.3% market share, down 5.1% year-over-year
Ask - 2.1 % market share, up 35.8% year-over-year

Google saw an estimated 5.1 billion searches, while Yahoo saw 1.4 billion and MSN saw nearly 800 million.

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Posted by Nathania Johnson at May 20, 2008 10:13 AM

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Look out Yahoo, Bill is right behind you.

Posted by: Jaan Kanellis at May 21, 2008 10:23 AM

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