Baidu Ranked Third Largest Worldwide Search Property by Comscore in December 2007
TOKYO, JAPAN, January 24, 2008 To aid in your research and coverage of Baidu’s recent announcement to enter the Japan market with www.baidu.jp, relevant Comscore qSearch worldwide data are provided below.
- In December 2007, 66.2 billion search queries were conducted worldwide.
- In December 2007, Baidu.com Inc. was the third ranked search property worldwide with 3.4 billion searches, capturing 5.2 percent of worldwide search share.
Worldwide Search Top 10 | ||
Searches (MM) | Share of Searches | |
Total Internet | 66,221 | 100.0 |
Google Sites | 41,345 | 62.4 |
Yahoo! Sites | 8,505 | 12.8 |
Baidu.com Inc. | 3,428 | 5.2 |
Microsoft Sites | 1,940 | 2.9 |
NHN Corporation | 1,572 | 2.4 |
eBay | 1,428 | 2.2 |
Time Warner Network | 1,062 | 1.6 |
Ask Network | 728 | 1.1 |
Yandex | 566 | 0.9 |
Alibaba.com Corporation | 531 | 0.8 |
*Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.
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