Google Snags 90 Percent of U.S. Search Growth in '08

Google ended 2008 with a bang.

They took 63.5 percent market share of all search queries performed in the U.S., according to comScore. Additionally, that that market share slowly crept up from 58.5 percent in January of ’08. According to comScore’s 2008 Digital Year In Review, Google accounted for 85 billion of the 137 billion estimated searches done last year.

Still, these numbers hide the truly staggering figure – that of search growth.

Nearly 90 percent of all the growth in search volume for the year was taken by Google. Most of that growth came from increasing the number of searches per person, rather than bringing more people to Google.