{"id":6990,"date":"2010-07-14T09:57:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T13:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=6990"},"modified":"2010-07-14T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:32:59","slug":"just-how-many-local-searches-were-there-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/14\/just-how-many-local-searches-were-there-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Just How Many Local Searches Were There in June?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Comscore Search <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comscore.com\/Press_Events\/Press_Releases\/2010\/7\/comScore_Releases_June_2010_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings\">report<\/a> for June has been released. Google had 10.29 billion searches. If roughly the same <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/google-rebrands-lbc-as-google-places-and-adds-features\/\">percentage of searches (20%) had local intent <\/a>as Google has indicated then there were approximately <strong>2,187,200,000<\/strong> searches in the U.S. on Google&#8217;s main search site last month that were local in nature.<\/p>\n<p>Across all of the search engines, again assuming roughly the same % of local intent, there were 3,187,000,000. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Everett_Dirksen\">A billion here, a billion there<\/a>, pretty soon you have some real numbers.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Screen-shot-2010-07-13-at-5.06.30-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6991\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-07-13 at 5.06.30 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Screen-shot-2010-07-13-at-5.06.30-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Screen-shot-2010-07-13-at-5.06.30-PM.png 477w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Screen-shot-2010-07-13-at-5.06.30-PM-257x200.png 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Comscore Search report for June has been released. 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