Google Creeps Toward 73% of US Searches in April, Marketing Vox news ( May 11)
How high can Google go in market share? Hitwise now says "72.74% of all US searches conducted in the four weeks ending April 25, 2009".
Also - search queries are getting longer -- "Search queries of five to more than eight words in length have increased 7% between April 2008 and April 2009. Searches of eight or more words increased 18%. The same time period showed that shorter search queries - those averaging one to four words long - have decreased 2%:"
Posted by Gwen at May 18, 2009 02:53 AM