Google Adds To Its Lead
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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