Compete's Major Trends of 2008 for Online Media and Search

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Research firm Compete published slides highlighting major 2008 trends. The slides are downloadable, and I've embedded them below. You can go to Slideshare and download them if you&39;re registered.

A few highlights from the research:

• Google captured 68% of the 116 billion search queries (the total breaks down to 9.67 billion monthly).
• Google&39;s searchers are also the most loyal, with the majority sticking with Google for all their searches.
• The top 1,000 media sites totaled 2.1 trillion pageviews in 2008; 85% of those pageviews went to social media sites.
• Social media sites commanded 79% of the 9 billion hours spent at the top 1,000 media sites.