Search engine activity increases, Google still leads big

Search stats released by Nielsen//NetRatings this week shows that search engine use is still going through the roof.

5.04 billion searches were done in August across 65 engines, up 10% from the 4.6 billion searches in July. Average searches per web searcher grew to 42 in August, an increase of 7% from July.

Search engine popularity

• Google–46% of all searches
• Yahoo–23% of all searches
• MSN–11% of all searches
• AOL Search–8% of all searches
• Ask Jeeves–2% of all searches

Source of post: SearchEngineWatch