New search stats that were released by Nielsen//NetRatings show that
search activity Jumped in August. Numbers 5.04 billion searches in August across 65 engines, that's up 10% from the 4.6 billion searches in July Average searches per web searcher grew to 42 in August, increase of 7% from July.
Top Engines for August
Google--46% of all searches
Yahoo--23% of all searches
MSN--11% of all searches
AOL Search--8% of all searches
Ask Jeeves--2% of all searches