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September 19, 2007 3:25 PM PDT

Google remains king of search

by Elinor Mills
Hitwise released statistics today that showed Google has nearly 64 percent of the U.S. search market, compared to Yahoo's 23 percent, Microsoft's 8 percent and Ask's 3.5 percent. Year-over-year, Google's share inched up, Asks' and Yahoo's were fairly flat and Microsoft lost market share, nearly 4 percentage points.

Google garners nearly 64 percent market share in U.S. Web search.

(Credit: Hitwise)

Meanwhile, Nielsen/NetRatings figures for August 2007 put Google at 53.6 percent U.S. market share, Yahoo at 20 percent, Microsoft at 13 percent and AOL at 5.6 percent.

Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press. E-mail Elinor.
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AOL = Google
by chrisfrary September 19, 2007 5:50 PM PDT
Aol uses google for search so Neilson's Ratings should show that.
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So does millions of websites.
by t8 September 19, 2007 8:27 PM PDT
Mine included.
Google search
by ernesto2732 September 19, 2007 11:47 PM PDT
Google is used because:
its thin initial web page, suggest the search when the word is rare and now have tools that let users stay more time in Google (itīs real that Goolge lack more content)like docs, igoogle, calendar, gmail
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