Skype Beats Vonage In September 2005 Search Queries

Skype is more popular that Vonage, that’s according to recent figures gained from Yahoo! Search Marketing have shown that the number of search queries conducted at Yahoo! and sites using Yahoo! Search Marketing ads.

There were a total of over 5 million searches for VoIP related terms in the month of September such as “VoIP”, “IP telephony” and “broadband phones”. Out of all the seraches conducted, the most popular generic, non-brandname serach terms was for “VoIP”, which recorded 1,407,465 searches in September. The top 5 list of VoIP providers searched for is as follows:

1. Skype: 197,435 searches
2. Vonage: 173,892 searches
3. Avaya: 27,439 searches
4. Google Talk: 20,220 searches
5. Net2Phone: 10,074 searches