2007 October: According to 2007 October figures from Hitwise…

1. Google has the largest market share of U.S. based web searches at 64.49%

• 2007 September 63.55%
• 2006 October 60.94%

2. Yahoo is second with a market share of 21.65%

• 2007 September 22.55%
• 2006 October 22.34%

3. MSN is third with a market share of 7.42%

• 2007 September 7.83%
• 2006 October 10.72%

4. Ask is fourth with a market share of 4.76%

• 2007 September 4.32%
• 2006 October 4.34%

“Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending Oct. 27, 2007, Sept. 29, 2007, Oct. 28, 2006) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users.”
Source: Hitwise – Dominance continues with a six percent increase over last year.

Top 5 Search Engines in the United States (The Majors) by Rank

• Google
  Yahoo! Search
  MSN Live Search
  AOL Search – Powered by Google
  Ask – Powered by Teoma