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At the pace at which google is going it wont be long before they the word monoploy comes into play, we need another giant to keep everything fair and good.
16 commentsTuesday, November 25, 2008
By Mike Sachoff
Google continues to dominate the U.S. search market share and in October it accounted for 63.1 percent of all searches, up from 58.5 percent in the previous year and up slightly from 62.9 percent in September according to comScore.
Yahoo landed the second spot with 20.5 percent, a decrease from 22.9 percent a year ago but up from 20.2 percent in September.
Microsoft ranked third with 8.5 percent in October, the same percentage it had in September but down from 9.7 percent from October 2007.
Ask.com dipped from 4.3 percent in September to 4.2 percent in October and AOL fell from 4.1 percent in September to 3.7 percent in October.
Nielsen Online ranked Google's October search share at 61.2 percent an 8.1 percent increase over October 2007. Yahoo grabbed 16.9 percent share for a year-over-year decrease of 12 percent.
Microsoft had 11.4 percent followed by AOL at 4.3 percent and Ask.com received 2.3 percent.
Microsoft's search share decreased by 19 percent compared to a year ago while AOL increased its share by 14.5 percent and Ask.com dropped 22.9 percent according to Nielsen.
The only search engines that saw positive year-over-year growth were Google and AOL.
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AOL & Ask
My comment on the expansion of google's market share .... somebody help before they devour us all!!!!
p.s. Pehaps it's just my slow brain but the first time I read the article I missed the transition from comscore to Neilson. AOL and Ask trade places in Neilson so it threw me.