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Bing’s share of searches increases for third straight month

March 10th

New York, NY, Mar. 10, 2010 - Experian Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 70.95 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Feb. 27, 2010. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 14.57 percent, 9.70 percent and 2.84 percent, respectively. The remaining 73 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.94 percent of U.S. searches.

Bing searches increase 5 percent in January 2010

February 10th

New York, NY, Feb. 10, 2010 - Experian Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 71.49 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Jan. 31, 2010. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 14.57 percent, 9.37 percent and 2.64 percent, respectively. The remaining 65 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.93 percent of U.S. searches.

In the News

March 21st

The New Era of Digital News ConsumptionClickZ NewsFacebook recently surpassed Google News as a news source, according to Hitwise. Interestingly, Facebook sent relatively more upstream traffic to traditional ...and more »

March 21st

The Money TimesFacebook targets $2bn as it overtakes GoogleThe AustralianLast week Facebook overtook Google for the first time as the most visited website in the US, according to research firm Hitwise, which clocked Facebook at ...How Facebook grabs leade...

Blog Posts

March 22nd

Earlier this month, Commonwealth Bank in conjunction with the University of Canberra launched Viewpoint - a report on the economic vitality of Australia. The report found that Gen Ys' spending habits were surprisingly resilient to the Global Financial C...

March 19th

You may well have seen our data illustrating that Facebook picked up more US Internet visits than Google.com last week (and possibly even seen me talking about it on Channel 4 News). As a consequence of the interest in the American data, a number of peopl...

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Experian Launches Hitwise Internet Measurement Service for France

February 2010
Experian has further expanded its Marketing Services portfolio in Europe with the launch of Experian Hitwise in France. Experian's Internet measurement service will help domestic and international marketers operating in France to improve their online marketing, content development, affiliate strategies and search tactics.

Google Receives 72 Percent of Searches in December 2009

January 2010
Experian Hitwise announced that Google accounted for 72.25 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Jan. 2, 2010. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 14.83 percent, 8.92 percent and 2.54 percent, respectively. The remaining 66 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.48 percent of U.S. searches.

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Sky News - AOL acquisition of Bebo

March 2008
Daniel King, General Manager of Hitwise UK, speaks to Sky News about AOL's $850 million acquisition of Bebo.

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