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Search engine barometer - October 2008
Google stopped its momentum but remains above 91% |
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| This barometer is published every month to follow the main trends in search engine visit shares. Below is the barometer for October 2008. |
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- Study conducted from October 1 to 31, 2008
- Cross-section of 95,783 websites audited by XiTi
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| Here comes Lo.st in our barometer |
After 6 consecutive months of growth (particularly marked on September), Google pauses in October 2008 : still clearly leader with 91.02% visits, Google moves back of 0.19 point compared to the previous month.
Yahoo!, second of the barometer (2.59%), Live Search, 3rd (2.11%), AOL, 4th (1.41%), and Orange, 5th (1.19%) keep on losing ground.
It is worth noting the entry of Lo.st engine (that uses Google’s technology) in our barometer. Recently measured by our AT Internet-XiTi solutions, it is ranked 6th with a share of visits of 0.48% on October 2008.
Free and Alice, that proportionately show the highest backward steps of this top 10 this month, are ranked 7 and 8, followed by Ask (the only one to remain stable) and Altavista.
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XiTi Monitor will provide the latest search engine developments next month.
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Methodology:
This search engine indicator concerns French-speaking websites
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