Google Receives 67 Percent of U.S. Searches in March 2008

Search leader reaches all-time high – up 5 percent year-over-year
Ask.com up 18 percent year-over-year

NEW YORK, NY – April 7, 2008 – Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that Google accounted for 67.25 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending March 29, 2008. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 20.29, 5.25 and 4.09 percent respectively. The remaining 46 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.72 percent of U.S. searches.

Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers

Domain	Mar.-08	Feb.-08	Mar.-07
www.google.com	67.25%	66.44%	64.13%
search.yahoo.com	20.29%	20.59%	21.26%
search.msn.com	6.65%	6.95%	9.01%
www.ask.com	4.09%	4.16%	3.48%

Note: Data is based on four week rolling periods (ending 3/29/08, 2/23/08, 3/31/07) from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. * - includes executed searches on Live.com and MSN Search

Source: Hitwise