Google Accounted For 64 Percent Of All U.S. Searches In March 2007

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Google Accounted For 64 Percent Of All U.S Searches In March 2007.

Google Search Market Share Up 10 Percent Year-Over-Year

NEW YORK, NY - April 11, 2007 - Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that Google accounted for 64 percent of all US searches for the four weeks ending March 31, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 22, 9 and 3 percent respectively. The remaining 48 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 5 percent of U.S. searches.

Percentage of US Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers
Domain	Mar 2007	Feb 2007	Mar 2006
www.google.com	64.13%	63.90%	58.33%
search.yahoo.com	21.26%	21.47%	22.30%
search.msn.com	9.15%*	9.30%*	13.09%
www.ask.com	3.48%	3.52%	3.99%
Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending 3/31/07; 2/24/07; 4/1/2006) from a sample of 10 million US Internet users. *includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search
Source: Hitwise

"Google's growth shows no signs of slowing" said Bill Tancer, General Manager of global research at Hitwise. "Despite capturing the majority of searches in the U.S., and in light of competitor's improvements, Google's market share of executed searches continues to grow, exceeding 10 percent growth year-over-year.

Google an Increasing Source of Traffic to Key Industries
Search engines continue to be the primary way Internet users navigate to key industry categories. Comparing March 2007 to March 2006, Travel, News and Media, and Business and Finance categories received more than double digit increases in their share of traffic coming directly from search engines.

Category Upstream Traffic from Search Engines and Google, March 2007
Category	Percent of Category Traffic from Search Engines, Mar 2007	Percent Change in Share of Traffic From Search Engines, Mar 2007 – Mar 2006	Percent of Category Traffic from Google, Mar 2007	Percent Change in Share of Traffic From Google, Mar 2007 – Mar 2006
Health and Medical	43.27%	+2.71%	28.38%	+9.76%
Travel	30.79%	+17.32%	18.93%	+24.95%
Shopping and Classifieds	25.35%	+5.99%	15.43%	+14.24%
News and Media	21.09%	+16.71%	13.52%	+27.73%
Entertainment	21.01%	+12.88%	12.98%	+24.46%
Business and Finance	15.75%	+13.28%	9.07%	+23.00%
Source: Hitwise

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Since 1997, Hitwise has pioneered a unique, network-based approach to Internet measurement. Through relationships with ISPs around the world, Hitwise's patented methodology captures the anonymous online usage, search, and conversion behavior of 25 million Internet users. This unprecedented volume of Internet usage data is seamlessly integrated into our easy to use, web-based service, designed to help marketers better plan, implement, and report on a range of online marketing programs.

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