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September 18, 2008 4:06 PM PDT

Google snatches search share in August

by Stephen Shankland

It's a familiar pattern: another month, another increase in Google's search market share.

Internet users performed 11.7 billion searches in the U.S. in August, choosing Google 63 percent of the time, according to ComScore's monthly analysis released Thursday. That's an increase of 1.1 percentage points from 61.9 percent in July, the analyst firm said.

Yahoo slipped from 20.5 percent to 19.6 percent, and Microsoft slipped from 8.9 percent to 8.3 percent.

Stephen Shankland writes about a wide range of technology and products, but has a particular focus on browsers and digital photography. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered Google, Yahoo, servers, supercomputing, Linux and open-source software, and science. E-mail Stephen, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/stshank.
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by eltoro2827 September 18, 2008 4:24 PM PDT
I still like LIVE
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by tobart September 18, 2008 5:00 PM PDT
So if Yahoo and MS slipped a collective 1.5%, and Google only grew 1.1%, where did the remaining 0.4% go? Is there another search engine growing? Or just a bunch of newb startups over the last month (not so likely)?
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by limefan913 September 18, 2008 5:56 PM PDT
Hm, I'm so shocked at MSN/Live search losing market share. Has anyone noticed the results are complete and utter crap? I mean, that's putting it nicely.

Yahoo though is slightly puzzling. Their results are typically pretty good.
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