August U.S. Search Share Results

Nielsen Online today released it rankings of U.S. search share for August. Overall search decreased 7.7 percent year over year to 7.2 billion searches. Google had year over year growth of 3.1 percent and received 60 percent of searches. Yahoo! had a year over year decline of 16.5 percent and received 18.1 percent of searches. Microsoft had a year over year decline of 23.8 percent and received 10.7 percent of searches.

Google Adds Search Suggestion Feature to Google Search

In a post on the Official Google Blog, it was announced that Google Suggest, Google’s search suggestion feature, will be a part of Google’s homepage. The feature provides suggested search terms in drop box below the search box as a search query is being typed into the search box. For example, if baseball were typed into the search box, terms like baseball hall of fame of fame, baseball reference, baseball games, and baseball america would show up. The feature also detects misspellings and typos and suggest correction like “Did you mean?” feature already available on the search results page. This feature has previously been available as opt-in feature as a Google Labs experiment.

July U.S. Search Share Results

Nielsen Online today released it rankings of U.S. search share for July. Overall search grew 3 percent year over year to 8 billion searches. Google had year over year growth of 16 percent and received 60.2 percent of searches. Yahoo! had a year over year decline of 11 percent and received 17.4 percent of searches. Microsoft had a year over year decline of 10 percent and received 11.9 percent of searches.

June U.S. Search Share Results

Nielsen Online released it rankings of U.S. search share for June on Friday. Overall search grew 6.3 percent year over year to 7.9 billion searches. Google had year over year growth of 19 percent and received 59 percent of searches. Yahoo! had a year over year decline of 12.4 percent and received 16.6 percent of searches. Microsoft had a year over year growth of 12.5 percent and received 14.1 percent of searches.