Google and Microsoft boosted their share of the U.S. Internet search market in September, while Yahoo lost ground, according to research firm ComScore Inc.
Google’s share increased to 64.9 percent from 64.6 percent in August, Reston, Virginia-based ComScore said yesterday. Microsoft rose to 9.4 percent from 9.3 percent, while Yahoo dropped to 18.8 percent from 19.3 percent, ComScore said.
What about Twitter and Facebook? What's most interesting are these numbers vs. last year.
Facebook Inc., the No. 1 social-networking site, had 95.5 million U.S. users during September, up 3.6 percent from the previous month, according to ComScore. The number more than doubled from a year earlier.
Twitter Inc., the No. 3 social-networking site in the U.S., had little growth in September from the previous month, with 20.9 million users. Compared with a year earlier, though, its users have swelled 18-fold.
Source: Bloomberg
See Also: If you Would like to Compare comScore September Rankings with September Rankings from Experian Hitwise, Here's Our Hitwise Post (October 7, 2009).
This post also discusses search query length (how many terms are users placing in the search box.
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