The table and line chart presents data on Internet searches in America from 2004 to 2010, showing the total amount of US searchers and the percentage of searches using different search engines.
Overall, US searchers saw a significant increase in the total amount in 2010 compared to the figure in 2004. Most search engines exhibited a downward trend or stagnation, whilst Google dominated the market and saw a dramatic growth throughout the period.
Concerning the total number of American searchers, it had been 4.5 billion in November 2004 then it quadrupled to 16 billion around more than 5 years later. Looking at the individual search engines, Google exhibited the highest portion among the search engines from the beginning of the period with roughly 35%, followed by Yahoo with just over 30% of Internet searches. Microsoft started at approximately 15%, accounting for more portion than AOL and Ask Jeeves by around under 10% and roughly 5%, respectively.
Thereafter, Google saw a dramatic rise over the period and rocketed to approximately 67% in September 2010. In contrast, Yahoo witnessed a substantial decline, falling to nearly 20% in the end of the period. The percentage of searches of Microsoft exhibited roughly above 10% in September 2010 after experiencing a slight decrease in the previous years while AOL and Ask Jeeves saw a constant trend throughout the period and both ended with approximately 3-4%.