August 21, 2006
Google Inc.'s Web sites continued to be the U.S.'s most-used search source in July, but lost 1% market share to Yahoo Inc., comScore Networks Inc. said Sunday.
Google accounted for 43.7% of all U.S. searches, but declined in total use for the first time after 11 consecutive months of increases, comScore said. Yahoo's sites increased to 28.8%, up 0.3% over June of this year but still down by 1.7% compared with the same month last year. Microsoft Corp. and MSN sites stayed unchanged at 12.8%.
Yahoo and Google continued to dominate the browser-based tool bar search market, with over 95% of all tool bar searches between them, said Reston, Va.-based comScore.
All searches totalled 6.3 billion for July, down 2% from June and reflecting seasonal change, comScore said.
(IDG News Service) --
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