Youtube now accounts for over 30% of Google Searches

A little over a year ago, comScore's Rankings Report for Dec. 2008 showed that YouTube for the first time, could be thought of as the second largest search engine next to Google with 2,905,000,000 total search queries that month.

According to comScore's December 2009 Rankings Report published last week, YouTube searches grew 35% year on year to more than 3.9 billion search queries.

In fact, YouTube not only had 50% more searches than Yahoo web search (3.918B vs 2.629B) and 180% more searches than Bing (3.918B vs 1.399B), but the number of searches at the online videogiant made up almost 28% (27.95) of the total searches on Google sites for Dec. 2009.

When you combined the above information with the notion that 23% of YouTube's total visits for December (130.3Million according to compete.com) originated from Google search , it is clear that video search is here to stay.