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Almost mirroring its traditional search presence, Google was able to capture 61% of the total mobile search market in the first quarter of 2008...

Keith Vera <br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Account Manager </span><br /><br />Almost mirroring its traditional search presence, Google was able to capture 61% of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">total mobile search market</span> in the first quarter of 2008. According to a recently released report by Nielsen Mobile, Google ranked highest in mobile searches, with Yahoo and MSN following with 18% and 5% respectively. <br /><br />According to Hitwise, Google captured 68.29% of all searches in May, 2008. Yahoo and MSN followed as usual with 19.95% and 5.89% respectively. Below is the Hitwise chart showing month-over-month and May 07 to 08 market shares for the big three:<br /><br /><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" alt="Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers" src="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/img/hitwiseapril2008.jpg" /><br /> 10 application/xml false google search market share mobile search search market share Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 kvera 70.21.126.116 false true false false true 177522 false false true false false false true 168909 blog blogsite/EyeTraffic/web