Website Design, Search Engine Optimization

Google gained 5% points of search market share in April ’07, handling 55% of the U.S. web search queries, reports Bloomberg News in the SF Chronicle. Market share was stolen from Microsoft.

Google accounted for almost 3.8 billion searches (3.77 to be exact) during the month. This is a 42% gain from a year earlier (reported Nielsen/NetRatings). Even though Microsoft’s number of queries rose by 7.4%, their share of the market fell to 9% (11% a year earlier).

Yahoo on the other hand held on to its market share at 22% in April with 1.5 billion queries. According to Nielsen this is a 28% gain from a year earlier.

Search market share in summary for April ‘07

  Google        55%
  Yahoo         22%
  Microsoft      9%
  All others    14%

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