"A new study by comScore found that more than 750 million people age 15 and older—or 95 percent of the worldwide Internet audience—conducted 61 billion searches worldwide in August, an average of more than 80 searches per searcher.
The Asia-Pacific region saw 258 million unique searchers conduct 20.3 billion searches. Europe reported the second-most searchers (210 million) and searches (18 billion), followed by North America, with 206 million searchers and 16 billion searches. The Latin American region demonstrated the heaviest search activity per person, with more than 95 searches per searcher in August.
Google sites ranked as the top worldwide search property with 37.1 billion searches conducted. Of that total number, 31 billion occurred at the Google search engine and 5 billion occurred at YouTube.com. Yahoo! sites ranked second with 8.5 billion searches, while Baidu.com, a Chinese language search engine, followed in third place with more than 3.2 billion searches. Microsoft sites ranked in fourth place worldwide, while Korea’s NHN Corporation, which owns Naver.com, ranked fifth with 2 billion searches worldwide."
[Source: OCLC Abstracts, October 15, 2007 Vol. 10 No.40]
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