The line graph and the table illustrates the percentage of searches through different search tools and the total number of US searches from 2004 to 2010.
Overall, it can be seen that all the figures witnessed an upward trend over the period,except for yahoo and ask jeeves. In addition, the rate of searches in 2010 was the most prominent with Google was the highest one.
At the beginning, the percentage lookups on Google app increased to over 40% at first before rising continuously to 54% in the next one month. The figure for Google end at over 60% after experiencing a continue climb, becoming the highest app has been search. On the contrary, starting at over 30% in the first three period, the proportion of searches through Yahoo was up and down and end at over 20%.
In addition, AOL and ask jeeves searches rate were 5% and 10% respectively at the begining then the figure for ask jeeves decline to the same percentage with AOL,at 5%. Despite seeing an opposite trend in the last 4 months, two tools ended at above 10%,becoming the lowest figures.