Search Engine Usage Soared in 2009


PCWorld: Search Engine Usage Soared in 2009

“More than 131 billion searches were made by people age 15 or older in December 2009, marking a 46 percent increase from 2008, according to a report from Web analytics firm Comscore. That breaks down into 4 billion searches per day, 175 million per hour, and 29 million per minute.

‘The global search market continues to grow at an extraordinary rate, with both highly developed and emerging markets contributing to the strong growth worldwide,’ said Jack Flanagan, Comscore executive vice president, in the report.”

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