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Web searches growth: Google grows by 6%, Yahoo! by 9%, MSN loses 4%
Nielsen//NetRatings reports 5% in Internet searches between Q1 2005 and Q2 2005. Smaller search engines reaped greater benefits out of search growth, with number of searches at Ask.
Nielsen//NetRatings reports 5% in Internet searches between Q1 2005 and Q2 2005. Smaller search engines reaped greater benefits out of search growth, with number of searches at Ask.com increasing by 16% and AOL Search growing 15%. However, Google still remained the undisputed king of the search engine world with 6% growth. Yahoo! grew by 9%, and MSN was the only top search engine to lose audience, receiving 4% fewer searches in Q2 2005.
Search engine growth between Q1 2005 and Q2 2005 | |||
| Search engine | Number of searches, Q1 2005 | Number of searches, Q2 2005 | QTQ growth, % |
| 5,737,097 | 6,088,343 | 6 | |
| Yahoo! | 2,576,473 | 2,798,123 | 9 |
| MSN | 1,659,235 | 1,590,049 | -4 |
| AOL | 562,816 | 646,641 | 15 |
| Ask | 216,656 | 250,869 | 16 |
| Total | 12,263,765 | 12,849,121 | 5 |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings | |||