comScore unveils search engine rankings for April 2009

Posted in comScore by Shane McGlaun on May 19th, 2009

comscore-logo-sbIt has been years since I have willingly used any search engine other than Google. The only time I search using anything else is when I sit at my wife’s computer with MSN as the home page and the page forces my search query into the MSN search box. Nothing like padding your search numbers huh Microsoft.

Metrics firm comScore announced the search engine rankings for April 2009 this week. As you expect the top search engine was Google with 64.2% of all searches for the month, up from 63.7% the month before. Yahoo, despite all its financial woes, was number two on the chart with 20.4% of the search market, down slightly from 20.5% the previous month.

Hulu breaks into top 3 for video sites

Posted in Hulu by Shane McGlaun on April 29th, 2009

hulu-sbI am a big Hulu fan; I often use the site to watch old TV shows like A-Team and Airwolf with my kids. Typically, the old shows I loved so much as a kid are not as cool now as they were then, I wish they would remake A-Team as a series like they did Battlestar Galactica.

ComScore has announced the rankings for video sites for March and for the first time Hulu has climbed into the top three video sites. Hulu viewers watched 380 million videos on the site during March, which sounds like a lot until you see how many videos were watched on YouTube.

YouTube viewers top 200 million for first time

Posted in YouTube by Shane McGlaun on March 5th, 2009

YouTubeIf you ever wondered what most Internet users do while they are on the internet, the answer is watch video according to new research released today. That’s really no surprise considering that many TV networks now offer streaming programs and sites like YouTube are so popular.

According to ComScore, YouTube has reached over 200 million viewers for the first time ever. The data shows that 76.8% of all US internet users viewed videos online in January. On YouTube alone viewers watched 6.3 billion videos for an average of 62.6 videos per user.





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