Google gained 1.8% marketshare in April

Posted on Monday, May 26 2008 @ 2:15 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
ComScore released figures about the U.S. search engine market in April 2008. The firm says Google gained 1.8 percent over the previous month, while Yahoo and Microsoft dropped 0.9 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively.
Compared with March, the company gained 1.8 percentage points to reach 61.6 percent share, ComScore said. Yahoo dropped 0.9 percentage points to 20.4 percent, Microsoft dropped 0.3 to 9.1 percent, AOL dropped 0.2 to 4.6 percent, and Ask dropped 0.4 percent to 4.3.

Americans conducted 10.6 billion search queries total in April, a number that dropped 2 percent from March, ComScore said. That means Google increased its absolute number of queries 1 percent, but all the others dropped.


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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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