Google grabs a bigger slice of search pie

And Microsoft's share drops againÂ…

By Elinor Mills, 6 January 2009 08:51

NEWS

Searches at Microsoft's Windows Live Search site dropped again in November from a year ago, while Google's continued to rise, according to Nielsen Online figures released on Monday.

Searches at Windows Live Search fell 16.7 per cent year-over-year, giving Microsoft 9.1 per cent market share in the US in November.

Google's searches rose 21.7 per cent, for 64.1 per cent market share, and Yahoo!'s searches dropped 1.4 per cent from November 2007, for 16.1 per cent share.

Total searches for the month exceeded eight billion, up 9.6 per cent from a year earlier.

In October, Google's searches rose 8.1 per cent, giving it 61.2 per cent share, while Yahoo!'s searches declined 12 per cent and Microsoft's fell 19 per cent year-over-year.

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