Nielsen//NetRatings Announces February U.S. Search Share Rankings

Nielsen//NetRatings Announces February U.S. Search Share Rankings

Nielsen//NetRatings (NASDAQ: NTRT) reports February 2007 data for the Top U.S. Search Providers.

Top search providers, ranked by total searches. Searches represent the total number of queries conducted at the provider.

Table 1: Top 10 Search Providers for February 2007,
Ranked by Searches (U.S.)

Provider                       Searches       YOY       Share of
                                (000)        Growth     Searches

1.  Google Search              3,597,697     40.3%        55.8%
2.  Yahoo! Search              1,332,669     12.0%        20.7%
3.  MSN/Windows Live Search      618,315      9.1%         9.6%
4.  AOL Search                   328,708     -6.1%         5.1%
5.  Ask.com Search               131,917      2.7%         2.0%
6.  My Web Search Search          63,596       N/A         1.0%
7.  EarthLink Search              28,988     33.4%         0.4%
8.  Dogpile.com Search            26,780     -2.4%         0.4%
9.  BellSouth Search              25,563       N/A         0.4%
10. Comcast Search                24,644       N/A         0.4%

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search, March 2007
Example: An estimated 3.6 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 56 percent of all search queries conducted during the given time period.

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