Among all the vertical search offerings between Q1 2005 and Q2 2005, image search created the highest traffic spikes in visits to vertical search properties. MSN, AOL and Yahoo! increased their traffic to image searches by more than 50%, Nielsen//NetRatings says.
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Vertical areas for major |
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| Vertical search | Number of searches, Q1 2005 |
Number of searches, Q2 2005 |
QTQ growth, % |
| MSN Image Search | 9,305,000 | 17,694,000 | 90% |
| AOL Image Search | 5,718,000 | 9,935,000 | 74% |
| Yahoo! Image Search | 92.403,000 | 143,643,000 | 55% |
| Ask News Search | 450,000 | 637,000 | 42% |
| Google Image Search | 482,629,000 | 541,483,000 | 12% |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings | |||