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Date Published 05/09/2007 - Click here for more recent news

Just to stop any potential bar-room brawling in EASIserv.com towers, we happily publish a couple of the categories from the latest set of search engine usage statistics from Hitwise - for the 4 weeks ending August 25, 2007.

 

Not too many surprises to be seen with Google continuing to dominate the top 4 of the search engines; but it's interesting to note the statistical confirmation in the Top 20 websites of the social networking phenomenon.  If you add the social networking sites together (bebo, myspace, facebook, youtube) they collectively feature just behind Google in terms of market share.  That's a rich (mostly) young market out there! 

 

1. UK - Leading Search Engines - August, 2007

This list features the top 4 leading search engines based on UK Internet usage, ranked by volume of searches for the 4 weeks ending August 25, 2007.

 

Rank	Search Engine	Volume
1.	www.google.co.uk	67.13%
2.	www.google.com	12.10%
3.	uk.search.yahoo.com	5.89%
4.	www.uk.ask.com	4.62%

 

Source - Hitwise - August, 2007 - based on volume of searches.

 

 

2. Hitwise UK – Top 20 websites - August, 2007

This list features the most popular websites based on UK Internet usage for August, 2007, ranked by market share of visits across all Hitwise industries.

 

Rank	Search Engine	Volume
1.	www.google.co.uk	8.3%
2.	www.ebay.co.uk	2.51%
3.	www.google.com	2.45%
4.	www.hotmail.com	2.2%
5.	uk.msn.com	1.74%
6.	www.orange.co.uk	1.48%
7.	www.bebo.com	1.41%
8.	uk.mail.yahoo.com	1.26%
9.	mail.live.com	1.24%
10.	www.myspace.com	1.17%
11.	www.facebook.com	1.13%
12.	uk.yahoo.com	0.94%
13.	news.bbc.co.uk	0.86%
14.	www.bbc.co.uk	0.78%
15.	www.amazon.co.uk	0.71%
16.	www.msn.com	0.66%
17.	uk.search.yahoo.com	0.65%
18.	www.youtube.com	0.63%
19.	news.bbc.co.uk/sport	0.5%
20.	images.google.co.uk	0.49%

Note - the Hitwise data featured is based on UK market share of visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or industry, from the Hitwise sample of 8.4 million Internet users in the UK. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorises websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context. 

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