{"id":547972,"date":"2006-02-10T12:20:23","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T12:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547972-google-grabs-more-ground.html"},"modified":"2006-02-10T12:20:23","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T12:20:23","slug":"google-grabs-more-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547972-google-grabs-more-ground.html","title":{"rendered":"Google grabs more ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The survey by Nielsen\/NetRatings showed Google accounted for 48.8% of all US search requests in December 2005, up from 43.1% a year earlier. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Google&#8217;s closest rival, Yahoo, saw its share dip to 21.4%\u00a0 from 21%. The number three search engine, Microsoft&#8217;s MSN Search, lost 3.1 percentage points to 10.9%. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The figures come against a backdrop of a 55% jump in overall Internet search requests, or 5.1 billion per month, Nielsen\/NetRatings said. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>While the number of searches conducted online swelled, the number of people connecting to the Internet rose just 3%\u00a0 to 207 million people in the US market. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;The double-digit increase in online search activity marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Internet consumer behaviour,&quot; said Ken Cassar, senior director of analytics at Nielsen\/NetRatings. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Online search is the primary tool most people rely on to do everyday research.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Google Search saw a 75% jump in usage over the prior 12 months, with Yahoo usage rising 53% and MSN use up 20 percent, the report showed. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge ||\u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=37347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has gained more ground against its Internet search rivals and now accounts for nearly half of all online searches in the United States, a survey shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}