The table presents data on the number of online searches in the US in two years, 2004 and 2010. While the graph compares the variation in the percentage of searches through five specific platforms during the same period.
Overall, it can be easily observed that there is a soar in the number of Internet accesses in the US. Among 5 seaking tool, Google platform saw a significant growth and always dominated compared to the rest, which tended to decline slowly and were constantly at a lower volume.
Looking at the table, the number of searches initially was 4.5 million and then skyrocketed 4 times to 16 billion between 2004 and 2010. Diving into details, Google engines leaded the figure with the start at 35%. Following Google was Yahoo with the number of accesses at about 30%. Wheares, Microsoft’s seaches made up 15%, surpassed AOL(8%) and Ask Jeeves(5%) in the beginning.
The number of site visits on the Google tool experienced an upward trend. At the beginning with 35%, the figure almost doubled with the final at the end was around 70%. In contrast, the rest of search engines tended to gradually decline in the number of online visits. Microsoft’s accesses firstly was 15% and then fell gradually to 8% in April 2009, matching with the begining AOL’s figure, but at the end of the period, Microsoft slightly recovered to 12%. During the time, Ask Jeeves and AOL kept at the same low level, fluctuated between 5% to 7%, which was too different compared to Google’s.