Google commands 64 percent of U.S. search engine market

By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 12 May 2010, 22:42 IST   |    1 Comments
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Google commands 64 percent of U.S. search engine market
Reston, Virginia: The monthly comScore rankings of the U.S. search engine marketplace is released for the month of April. A total of 15.5 billion core searches were effected with Google sites leading the market with 64.4 percent share of core searches. Yahoo sites followed the order with 17.7 percent while Microsoft sites accounted for 11.8 percent. Both Yahoo and Microsoft saw an increase in their market share, going up by 0.8 and 0.1 percent respectively. This was the result of introduction of new site navigation experiences that tie content and related search results together within several channels. Ask Network and AOL LLC rounded off the top five in the search market with 3.7 and 2.4 percent market share.