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Search stats: Google, Microsoft hold steady

Microsoft's bid for Yahoo has put an even bigger spotlight on trends in the Internet search market, but the latest report doesn't show much movement. Google saw its U.S. market share increase slightly from December to January, while Microsoft's share was static, according to Internet search statistics released by comScore Networks today.

Yahoo was the only one of the big search engines to see a decline in market share from month to month, but even that was relatively small.

Here are the results for the core search market, which doesn't include queries on related mapping, video and local directory sites.

Google: December: 58.4%; January 58.5%
Yahoo: December: 22.9%; January: 22.2%
Microsoft: December: 9.8%; January: 9.8%
AOL: December: 4.6%; January 4.9%
Ask.com: December: 4.3%; January 4.5%

Posted by at February 21, 2008 11:27 a.m.
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#100488

Posted by unregistered user at 2/21/08 11:31 a.m.

MSFT is in your link but missing from your list.

#100489

Posted by Todd Bishop at 2/21/08 11:33 a.m.

Thanks, that's fixed now.

#100510

Posted by unregistered user at 2/21/08 12:24 p.m.

It's funny that Kedrosky uses the same stats, just presented differently, to argue how GOOG is improving.

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2008/02/21/search_trends_g.html

I see them the way you do (i.e. no real change for GOOG or MSFT).

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