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Top Search Properties Worldwide
Google Sites ranked as the top search property worldwide with 87.8 billion searches in December, or 66.8 percent of the global search market. Google Sites achieved a 58-percent increase in search query volume over the past year.
Yahoo! Sites ranked second globally with 9.4 billion searches (up 13 percent), followed by Chinese search engine [...]
Top Search Markets Worldwide
The total worldwide search market boasted more than 131 billion searches conducted by people age 15 or older from home and work locations in December 2009, representing a 46-percent increase in the past year.
This number represents more than 4 billion searches per day, 175 million per hour, and 29 million per minute. The [...]
Top Search Engines UK
VISITS
Google UK – 63%
Google – 17%
Google UK Images – 5%
Bing – 3%
Yahoo! Search UK & Ireland – 2%
Ask Jeeves UK – 2%
Google Image search – 1%
Ask.com – 0.4%
Google Polska – 0.3
Tiscalli UK search – 0.3
VOLUME
Google UK – 76%
Google – 12%
Yahoo! Search UK & Ireland – 3%
Bing – 3%
Yahoo! Search – 2%
Source: Hitwise
Google offers a new 5-a-day
Google is changing its ‘First Click Free’ programme so that readers will not be able to look at more than 5 pages in one day via its search engine.
The programme lets readers get around paying subscriptions or registration to news sites by accessing news articles through Google.
The move means users who now click on more [...]
