Top U.S. Online Search Providers December 2008

According to Nielsen Online, there were roughly 8.6 billion Web searches conducted during December 2008 – up 19.6% over the same month last year.

Google searches accounted for nearly 63% of all Web searches, with 5.4 billion queries. Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and Ask.com rounded out the top five.

Searches represent the total number of queries conducted at the provider.

RANK	Provider	Searches (000)	YOY Growth	Share of Searches
	All Searches	8,623,705	19.60%	100.00%
1	Google Search	5,421,943	33.50%	62.90%
2	Yahoo! Search	1,448,140	13.70%	16.80%
3	MSN/Windows Live Search	841,457	-15.50%	9.80%
4	AOL Search	357,025	5.10%	4.10%
5	Ask.com Search	169,116	6.00%	2.00%
6	My Web Search	62,415	-11.60%	0.70%
7	Comcast Search	50,385	45.10%	0.60%
8	NexTag Search	29,219	0.70%	0.30%
9	AT&T Worldnet Search	27,176	8.00%	0.30%
10	BizRate Search	23,593	37.10%	0.30%
Source: Nielsen Online, MegaView Search