Google continued to grab U.S. Internet search market share at a record pace in July, with Microsoft's MSN search engine the biggest loser over the past year and a half, according to data from Hitwise.
Google accounted for 70.77% of all online search engine queries in the U.S. for the four weeks ending July 26, Hitwise said Tuesday. The figure is Google's tenth consecutive record high in monthly search share, and shows strong improvement over the 64.35% share it took in July of last year and 63.06% in January 2007.
Microsoft's MSN search, by contrast, has taken the worst hit over the past nineteen months. MSN accounted for just 5.36% of all U.S. Internet search in July, down from 8.79% in the same month last year and nearly half the 10.35% share MSN held in January, 2007.
The decline in U.S. search share may be one reason Microsoft was so keen to acquire Yahoo's search technology.
MSN has seen a steady decline since February, around the same time Microsoft announced its $44.6 billion bid to acquire Yahoo. The world's largest software maker abandoned its original offer.
Yahoo's search engine fared a bit better than MSN's, but Hitwise research also shows a precipitous decline for Yahoo. The company's search engine took an 18.65% share of U.S. Internet queries in July, down from 22.13% a year ago. Yahoo held a 21.40% share of U.S. search in January, 2007.
Ask.com was the only other search engine Hitwise broke out figures for. The Web site accounted for 3.53% of U.S. Internet searches in July, up from 3.21% last year.
The remaining 47 search engines Hitwise tracks accounted for 1.69% of U.S. searches, the researcher said.
U.S. Internet search market share of top three players in terms of percent
| Domain | www.google.com | search.yahoo.com | search.msn.com |
| July 2008 | 70.77 | 18.65 | 5.36 |
| June | 69.17 | 19.62 | 5.46 |
| May | 68.29 | 19.95 | 5.89 |
| April | 67.90 | 20.28 | 6.26 |
| March | 67.25 | 20.29 | 6.65 |
| February | 66.44 | 20.59 | 6.95 |
| January | 65.98 | 20.94 | 6.90 |
| December 2007 | 65.98 | 20.88 | 7.04 |
| November | 65.10 | 21.21 | 7.09 |
| October | 64.49 | 21.65 | 7.42 |
| September | 63.55 | 22.55 | 7.83 |
| August | 63.98 | 22.87 | 7.98 |
| July | 64.35 | 22.13 | 8.79 |
| June | 63.92 | 21.31 | 9.85 |
| May | 65.13 | 20.89 | 8.40 |
| April | 65.26 | 20.73 | 8.46 |
| March | 64.13 | 21.26 | 9.15 |
| February | 63.90 | 21.47 | 9.30 |
| January 2007 | 63.06 | 21.40 | 10.35 |
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Microsoft-Yahoo turmoil ends up good for GoogleBy Google Subnet on August 13, 2008, 8:24 amWhile the Microsoft bid to buy Yahoo is long gone, its results seem to be lingering, as both Microsoft and Yahoo have lost search market share to Google since the...
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