MySpace Influences Online Retail Visits

copyright Hitwise
published August 31, 2006

Google Responsible For More Than 14 Percent Of Online Retail Visits
MySpace Gaining Ground Accounting for 2.53% of Visits to Shopping Sites

NEW YORK, NY - August 31, 2006 - Hitwise, the world's leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that Google was the top U.S. search engine responsible for 14.93 percent of U.S. upstream 1 visits to the Shopping and Classifieds category for the week ending August 26, 2006. Yahoo! Search was the second most popular search engine sending visits to Shopping & Classifieds websites, accounting for 4.69 percent of upstream visits for that week. MSN Search rounded out the top search engines accounting for 2.33 percent of visits to the category.

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