Outsell projects that total online marketing spend will grow 19 percent in 2006, eight times the rate for TV ads and six times the rate for print ads. Spending on search engine advertising is projected to grow 26 percent in 2006.

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Internet users up 54%.

new data from netratings shows that US-based searches are up 55 percent year-on-year…

Marketing Vox report.

are more and more people discovering the killer app that search represents? i, for one am. most coding issues can be solved in minutes by looking at forum posts google spits out.

… puts google at consistently twice the amount of coverage as yahoo - maxing at 48% of the search engine market.

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” SEM spending is forecast to increase an average of 41% in 2005. [SEMPO, 2004] ” About 10 million people in the UK used a search engine in January 2005, compared with about 13 million Germans and 6.7 million in France. [Nielsen//NetRatings, 2005] ” 84.8% of users found sites through search. [GVU, 10th User Survey, 2004, US data] - 85.7% searched with intent to buy.
” The four leading search engines powered 81% of UK internet searches in September 2005. When the UK and .com properties of Google, MSN Search, Yahoo! Search and Ask are combined, that figure reaches 94%. [Hitwise UK Search Report, October 2005]

figures from e-consultancy.co.uk…