The US search engine powered 31 billion queries during the month, say the web analysts comScore. 数据挖掘实验室
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In total more than 37 billion searches were carried out across all Google sites.
Google-owned video-sharing phenomenon YouTube scored 5 billion searches in August. 数据挖掘实验室
Second on the list was Yahoo!, another US-based search engine, which was a long way behind Google with 8.5 billion searches recorded across the month.
Third was the Chinese search engine Baidu with 3.2 million searches, followed by all Microsoft sites, such as MSN, with 2.1 billion. Fifth was Korea's NHN, with 2 billion. 数据挖掘实验室
ComScore's Bob Ivins said: "Seeing Asian search engines like China's Baidu.com and Korea's NHN ranked alongside Google and Yahoo! underscores the fact that search has become a truly global phenomenon."
The report is billed as "the first comprehensive study of worldwide search activity". 数据挖掘实验室
It also revealed that the Asia-Pacific region, including China, Japan and India, contained the greatest number of unique searchers, with 258 million conducting over 20 billion searches during the month.
Second was Europe with 210 million searchers making 18 billion searches, followed by North America, with 206 million making 16 billion searches. 数据挖掘研究院
The most underdeveloped area in terms of web searches was the Middle East-Africa region, with 30 million recording 2 billion searches.
