How Big Is Search? 100 Billions Searches Per Month According To comScore

So we heard this search this is big and continues to grow but did you realize that over 100 billion searches were done in the month of July 2009? comScore released some new data yesterday which indicates that over 113 billion searches were done in the month of July 2009, which is a 41% increase from the same time period one year earlier. Google dominated more of the searches with 76.7 billion searches or 67.5% of the search market and Yahoo! Sites ranked second worldwide with 8.9 billion searches (7.8 percent share). Chinese search engine Baidu was third with 8 billion searches (7.0 percent share).

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Expect a big change next year as stats from Bing and the proposed Microsoft/ Yahoo search deal will definitely make an impact on the numbers reported.

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