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Search engine barometer – February 2008
Modest comeback for Yahoo! and Live Search
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| This barometer is published every month in order to track the principal trends in search engine visit share. Here is our report for February 2008. |
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- Study conducted February 1-29, 2008
- Perimeter of 89,621 websites
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| AOL held firm after its January breakout; Yahoo! and Live Search posted slight gains. |
AOL, with 1.55% of search engine visits for February 2008, continues to hold the number 4 position that it grabbed last month. Live Search, after sliding for several months, showed a turnaround compared to January, adding +0.05 points. Yahoo! posted an even bigger turnaround of +0.15 points compared to January. This has placed Yahoo! once again over the 3% bar for visit share.
The visit share for Google dipped below the 90% mark: 89.97% in February 2008, or a loss of 0.06 points from January, following a 0.8 points loss last month. Meanwhile, Orange and Free also continued their decline.
Among the other search engines composing February's top 15, Ask is conspicuous with a 22% drop.
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XiTi Monitor will be back next month with an updated analysis of search engine visits.
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Methodology:
This search engine barometer uses data collected on French-language websites.
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