Appendix A: Search engines statistics

Share of searches in the USA

Table A.1 displays the share of searches done in each of the search engines as published by two different search marketing companies: comScore (2009d) and Nielsen/NetRatings (2009). The table summarises searches done by US web surfers in June and July 2009.

Table A.1

Share of searches in the USA

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Source: comScore qSearch (2009) and Nielsen/NetRatings (2009)

Share of searches worldwide

Table A.2 displays the share of searches done by world wide web surfers in July 2009 in each of the main search engines. The data were extracted from statistics provided by comScore (2009e) ...

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