NEW YORK, NY--(eMediaWorld - January 14, 2009) - Nielsen Online reports December 2008 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 December 2008, Ranked by Searches
(U.S.)

Provider                   Searches (000)   YOY Growth   Share of Searches
-----------------------   --------------  --------------  ----------------
All Search                     8,623,705            19.6%            100.0%
Google Search                  5,421,943            33.5%             62.9%
Yahoo! Search                  1,448,140            13.7%             16.8%
MSN/Windows Live Search          841,457           -15.5%              9.8%
AOL Search                       357,025             5.1%              4.1%
Ask.com Search                   169,116             6.0%              2.0%
My Web Search                     62,415           -11.6%              0.7%
Comcast Search                    50,385            45.1%              0.6%
NexTag Search                     29,219             0.7%              0.3%
AT&T Worldnet Search              27,176             8.0%              0.3%
BizRate Search                    23,593            37.1%              0.3%

Source: Nielsen Online, MegaView Search

Example: An estimated 5.4 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 62.9 percent of all search queries conducted during the given time period.

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