Online Business Growth

• Merchants in the UK expect their sales to increase by an average of 36% in 2005.  [CyberSource, 2005 Fraud Report, UK]
• The predicted growth in online sales in the US for 2005 is slightly higher at 39%.

Key search stats

• 55% of online transactions originated from search. [Jupiter, 2004]
• 84.8% of users found sites through search. [GVU, 10th User Survey, 2004, US data]
• 85.7% of search users, searched with intent to buy.  [GVU, 10th User Survey, 2004, US data]
• Google accounts for more than 50% of all UK web searches, generating three times as many search requests as Yahoo! in the UK market. [Nielsen//NetRatings 2005]
• Google still dominates the worldwide search engine market with exactly 56.4% of search engine traffic between April and May 2004, according to OneStat.com.
  
  1. Google: 56.4%
  2. Yahoo!: 21.1%
  3. MSN search: 9.2%
  4. AOL search: 3.8%
  5. Terra Lycos: 2.0% [OneStat.com, April 04]