comScore: Google increased its search dominance in April
by Stevie Smith - May 19 2009, 15:30
Still the number-one search engine. No surprises there then. Image: Google.
Likely to leave Yahoo and Microsoft executives sobbing onto their respective pie charts, and coming the day after upstart computational service WolframAlpha had its official launch, new market figures have revealed that Google has extended its lead in the search sector.
According to search proliferation numbers offered up by comScore, online users in the United States input some 14.8 billion searches during the month of April, which equates to a month-on-month gain of three percent compared to March.
In terms of performance share, Google racked up a whopping 64.2 percent of those amassed searches, which is a 0.5 percent month-on-month improvement. Google’s nearest search rival, Internet pioneer Yahoo, accounted for 20.4 percent of April’s queries, which is a marginal decrease of 0.1 percent.
The drop off to third-placed Microsoft remained substantial – despite Microsoft’s best efforts – with the Redmond-based software titan registering only 8.2 percent of all U.S. searches in April, while Ask and AOL round out the top five search providers with respective figures of 3.8 percent and 3.4 percent.
In related news, a new kind of search engine officially launched yesterday when Dr. Stephen Wolfram unveiled his computational WolframAlpha service, which strives to actually answer specific questions and queries by quickly sifting through masses of database information.
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