Google increased its overall lead in the search engine industry, while Microsoft’s Live Search grabbed a bit more market share during March. Yahoo, Ask.com and AOL all saw slight declines.
The results from comScore mean that Google now has its largest lead in the industry ever. Of the 14.3 billion U.S. searches performed in March, Google held 63.7 percent of those. That averages out more than 293.8 million searches per day!
Yahoo continued to hold firmly to its second place in the standings with 20.5 percent of the market share. MSN Live Search has 8.3 percent of the market while Ask.com has 3.8 percent and AOL holds 3.7 percent.
Reuters first reported the story, and the original is available here.
UPDATE: We have more recent numbers for Google’s and Bing’s number of searches.
By: Zack S.
Tags: comScore, Google searches per day, search engine market share, searches per day 2009
[...] us with more information than any building could hold on old-fashioned paper. As of March 2009, Google averages 293.8million searches per day, an astonishing number that more than ever depicts how technology has impacted our [...]