Search Growth Trend – More People Using Search Engines
Despite all the noise about social media growth and Facebook replacing Google, search as a category has seen a rise in the month of October. According to comScore qSearch analysis data released by com Score, except for AOL LLC network, search sites of all top 5 search networks namely Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask have seen a growth.
In October 2010, people of the United States have conducted more than 16.6 billion core searches which is a 4% rise on the previous month data, which as 16 billion core searches.
Although the leaderboard has not changed in October — Google is still at number one, Yahoo at number two, and Microsoft on Number 3 — Microsoft sites have shown some promise. It has risen by 7% to touch 1.9 billion explicit core searches in this month. Google has recorded a growth of 4%, and Yahoo grew by 2% (see image for details).
