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Internet World Stats News
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Number 021 -
August, 2006
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Search
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Editorial
One of the most intriguing questions about
Internet Usage is researching what people do online. The main
activity appears to be email reading and writing, second is
searching in general. Viewing and paying bills is another main
activity, as well as job hunting. Other uses of surfing time are
downloading of audio and video podcasts, publishing blogs, and
dating. The social portals are growing fast.
In this issue a report summary (pdf) of
Internet usage in the European Union, prepared by Eurostats, is
available. Broadband uptake is compared for EU25. The latest
search engine ranking by comScore is also published. This report
compares search engines in July 2006 versus July 2005. Research
by comScore confirms that Google continues in first place,
followed by Yahoo, Microsoft, Time Warner (AOL), and Ask.
The number of Internet users in the world today is estimated at
1,043,104,886 people according to Internet World Stats records. We generally update our published
statistical tables four times per year.
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Internet in European Union
Report
In the EU students show the highest rate of
Internet access of any user group, with 79 per cent going online
at least once a week. More than half of the employed people (55
per cent) do so, while less than a third of the unemployed (32
per cent) do. In the EU, more men than women (49 per cent
compared to 38 per cent) access the Internet regularly.
The report summary (pdf) is available here for free download. For further information, please visit the
Eurostat web site where more research reports are
available.
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Internet Search Engines
Report
comScore Networks released
its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive
search engines for July 2006. Yahoo! Sites posted modest market
share gains for the second consecutive month to reach 28.8
percent of U.S. searches, trailing Google Sites, which registered
a 43.7 percent share. Google’s share declined 1 percent
from the previous month, ending its impressive 11-month run of
consecutive gains. Microsoft Sites held steady in third position
with 12.8 percent share of searches, while Time-Warner Network
(5.9 percent) and Ask Network (5.4 percent) each showed modest
market share gains versus the previous month.
United
States Search Engine Ranking
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Description
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July,
2005
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July,
2006
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Percent
Change
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Internet
population
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100
%
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Percen100 %t
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N/A
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-- Google
sites
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36.5 %
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43.7 %
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7.2
%
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-- Yahoo
sites
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30.5 %
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28.8 %
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-1.7 %
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-- MSN Search
sites
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15.5 %
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12.8 %
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-2.7 %
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-- Time Warner
Network
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9.9
%
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5.9
%
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-4.0 %
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-- Ask
Network
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6.1
%
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5.4
%
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-0.7 %
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Source: comScore Networks from the monthly qSearch
Analysis of search engine competitive activity for United States,
August, 2006.
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Key findings of the comScore
report:
+ Americans conducted 6.3 billion searches
online in July, down 2 percent versus last month, reflecting
seasonal declines typically seen in July. Growth in search query
volume on an annual basis remains strong, rising 30 percent since
July 2005.
+ Google Sites led the pack with 2.7 billion search queries
performed, followed by Yahoo Sites (1.8 billion), MSN-Microsoft
(802 million), Time-Warner Network (366 million), and Ask
Jeeves/Ask Network (338 million).
+ Google and Yahoo! continued their dominance in toolbar
searches, combining for more than 95 percent of the market share
in July. Google grabbed 50.3 percent of toolbar searches, while
Yahoo! captured 46.2 percent.
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New Weather Resource at
IWS
Among the useful market research
information for any world region or country is the weather.
Climate and local weather conditions can affect business as we
all know. For this reason, we have added a link for searching the
local weather in any country or region at World Time and
Weather. If you enter the name of a
country in the search box, a new page opens with the current
local weather in several cities. Clicking on one of the cities
will give you a weather report with the current conditions and a
forecast for the next days. Enter the name of a region, and you
will get complete information and a country list. For the United
Stats you can enter the zip code to get the current weather in
that area.
We have chosen the Weather Underground
as the weather information source for our web
site because it is the oldest and most complete, free weather
service website, and it even includes several languages you can
select. The individual country pages will all have a link for
local weather.
See Japan or Chile for an example.
Best regards to all readers,
Enrique de Argaez,
editor and webmaster
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