Americans conduct between 3.0 and 3.5 billion searches per month. More than one billion of these searches are
typically conducted at Google. The average search engine user conducted 32
searches in February. The average Google user conducted 25 searches at the
engine, more than twice the average number of searches (12) conducted by
users of the top ten engines. In February, Google controlled approximately 35% of searches conducted at major search engines by U.S. Internet
users. Yahoo!, its closest competitor, conducted 30% of searches.