Another month, another confirmation of Google’s dominance in the search engine realm. March only revealed what we already knew about Google’s share of the search market pie: it’s big, and it’s growing.
According to recent figures released by comScore Networks from its qSearch analysis, Google carried out 48.3% of all U.S. searches in March 2007. This was a 0.2% increase from February’s 48.1% share.
Yahoo! followed behind, but lost a relatively large chunk of its February share. The portal finished March with 27.5% of all searches in the U.S., a significant decline from the previous month’s 28.1% share.
Microsoft seemed to gain a big portion of Yahoo!’s loss by taking 10.9% of the market in March, a 0.4% increase from February’s 10.5% share.
Ask held onto its fourth place spot with 5.2% of the market, a 0.2% increase from the previous month’s 5.0% share.
Time Warner (AOL) placed fifth with 5.0% of all searches in March. This was a 0.1% increase from February’s 4.9% share.
There were 7.3 billion total search queries conducted in March in the U.S., a 6% increase from February, and a 14% increase from last year.
Google handled 3.5 billion queries, while Yahoo! handled 2 billion, Microsoft took 798 million, Ask processed 379 million, and Time Warner (AOL) carried out 368 million queries.
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http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625660
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