In a finding that is shocking to no one, comScore said this week that Google Inc. hung onto its No. 1 market share spot in Internet search during the month of April.
In fact, Google gained in market share, up one-half of one percent from March to claim a full 64.2 percent of overall searches conducted in the United States.
Everyone else lost ground, including Yahoo!, which showed a respectable 20.4 percent share in search market nonetheless, and Microsoft Corp., which limped in at a distant third with 8.2 percent market share.
The number of queries increased 3 percent to 14.8 billion, with Google doing 9.5 billion of them. Yahoo! carried out 3 billion, and Microsoft 1.2 billion searches.
Ask.com and AOL are in a pitched battle for the remaining slivers of the market, at 3.8 percent and 3.4 percent of overall searches, respectively.
