May 18, 2009
Google’s search market share rose modestly in April while Yahoo and Microsoft saw their standings in the U.S. slip slightly.
ComScore reported Monday that Google now holds 64.2 percent of the online search market, up from 63.7 percent in March. Google’s 4 percent growth in traffic came during a month where the search market rebounded, growing 3 percent in the U.S. to 14.8 billion searches.
Search market rebounds with 3 percent growth in the U.S.
Yahoo and Microsoft both lost 0.1 points of market share. Yahoo ended April with 20.4 percent of the market and Microsoft finished with 8.2 percent.
They both grew traffic slower than the market’s expansion.
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April 28, 2009
It seems February’s nervousness is subsiding when it comes to viewing videos online.
Hulu becomes third most trafficed video site
After a 12 percent decline in video traffic during the month, video use rebounded in March, returning to more normal growth trends. Traffic rose 11 in March v. February, according to comScore.
Hulu, the television site started by Fox and NBC, led the way. For the first time, Hulu cracked the top three video sites, passing Yahoo and following just Google (read: You Tube) and Fox Interactive (read: MySpace).
Google accounted for 41 percent of videos viewed on line – by far the leader. Fox’s market share is 3 percent. But it may not remain in second place for long.
Hulu’s share is 2.6 percent and it is closing fast.
Watch out MySpace, your days may be numbered.
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April 23, 2009
Here are the quickest growing Internet sites from March this year, according to comScore.
Major league baseball's site was among the quickest growing in March
There are some surprises: Grisoft, the maker of free anti-virus software, and Nestle. And some not surprises: Twitter and MLB.com (major league baseball).
The list based on U.S. traffic follows:
Twitter, with unique visitors up 131 percent;
Grisoft, up 82 percent;
Oprah.com, up 60 percent;
Usmagazine.com, up 54 percent;
Technorati Media, up 37 percent;
MLB.com. up 35 percent;
Groupe Lagardere, up 34 percent;
Limewire,com, up 32 percent;
Universal Music Group, up 32 percent; and
Nestle, up 32 percent.
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April 15, 2009
The U.S. search market rebounded in March with Internet users generating 14.3 billion online queries, an increase of 9 percent.
Google ends March with 63.7% of the search market, up 0.4 points
But Google was unable to claim market share from rivals Yahoo and Microsoft.
The number of search queries had declined 3 percent in February, according to comScore. The turnabout may suggest consumers are returning to their pre-downturn habits, using the net to search for data and product information.
Despite the better environment, market shares among the top search engines remained essentially unchanged. Google’s share grew 0.4 points to 63.7 percent, comScore said.
Yahoo meanwhile lost 0.1 points of share to 20.5, and Microsoft gained as much to end the month with an 8.3 percent share.
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March 11, 2009
Online search continues to be hot in Japan.
Searchers in the world’s third largest Internet market set a record in January by conducting 6.8 billion searches, an increase of 8 percent.
Home and work locations
It is the highest monthly total on record, says comScore.
Just who led the search-engine pack? The surprising answer is Yahoo, the Japanese market leader responsible for handing 51.3 percent of all searches, with its volume rising faster than the market at 13 percent.
In an unfamiliar spot, Google is number two in the market with a 38.2 percent share. Growth was less than the market, at 5 percent.
The local engine, Rakuten, came in at a distant third with Microsoft trailing closely behind.
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March 6, 2009
The growth in the number of videos viewed online slowed in January to 4 percent.
That’s down from 13 percent in December, according to comScore.
The fluctuations in the tracking data are hard to interpret, especially with the volatile economy. But what’s clear is the continued growth in usage. In January, U.S. Internet users watched 14.8 billion videos, with Google’s You Tube accounting for 91 percent of the growth, says comScore.
The service passed 100 million viewers for the first time, up from 98.9 million in December.
Americans watched 14.3 billion online videos in December.
Google is by far the most popular destination for video, with a 42.9 percent share of the market in January. Number two, Fox Interactive Media (owners of MySpace), has only 3.7 percent share.
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February 19, 2009
Americans conducted 13.5 billion online searches in January, up 7 percent from December.
The growth in this core, online market place improved from a depressed pace at the end of 2008. Growth was 3 percent in December and, in November, the volume of searches in the U.S. actually fell 3 percent, in part because the month had one less day than October.
ComScore said the market shifted little from December and not in Google’s favor. Google lost 0.5 points of market share and ended the month with 63 percent of the market.
Yahoo gained the same amount of share and held 21 percent of the market in January. Microsoft gained 0.2 points of share to 8.5 percent and Ask Networks lost ground to fall behind AOL in the rankings.
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February 12, 2009
Consumer spending at online retail merchants fell 3 percent in the fourth quarter – the first decline on record for the Internet market place.
The dismal quarter came after a steady slide in online e-commerce through most of 2008, though the year showed a 6 percent gain, said comScore. The third quarter, for instance, also experienced a 6 percent rise in spending.
ComScore said it was first quarterly decline since it began tracking the market in 2001.
The top growing category for the full year was video games, consoles and accessories followed by home, garden and furniture.
Sports and fitness was third with tickets making up the final category with double-digit growth.
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February 4, 2009
Americans watched 14.3 billion online videos during the month of December, a record and a 13 percent rise from November, comScore says.
Google, with its You Tube video site, drew two out of three of the 150 Americans who went online to view a video – or more than 100 million people.
The average viewer saw 98 videos.
According to comScore, more than three-quarters of Internet users saw at least one video and the average viewer watched 309 minutes. The duration of the average video was 3.2 minutes, but television-viewing site Hulu kept the average user 10 minutes, more than any other top site.
Here are the most popular video sites:
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January 30, 2009
The popularity of smartphones in the U.S. is leading to a spike of interest in downloading mobile games.
Downloads of mobile games increased 17 percent in November 2008 from a year ago, comScore said on Friday. During the month, 8.5 million people, or 3.8 percent of mobile phone subscribers, received at least one game.
Of those downloads, 34 percent went to a smartphone, such as Apple’s iPhone or Research In Motion’s Blackberry Curve, said Senior Analyst Mark Donovan. Last year, not one smartphone was among the top ten mobile devices for downloading games.
The iPhone and the Curve have replaced the RAZR and low-end flip phones as the most popular gaming devices, comScore said.
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