36% of search engine users click on news search results

Fact recorded on: April 15, 2008. Categories: Search engines.

Search engine users click “news” results more than twice as much (36%) within blended search results as they do when they use the vertical “news search” (17%), and click more “image” results (31%) within blended search than when utilizing vertical “image search” (26%), according to iProspect. The extent to which they report clicking “video” results within blended search results (17%) also far exceeds the percentage of users who click a vertical “video search” result (10%). Only 19% of search engines users report that they have not clicked a news, image, or video search result within the blended search results. This compares to 35% who have not used vertical search.

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