Mountain View, Calif. - Americans conducted 11.7 billion Internet searches in August, with Google (NASD: GOOG) extending its lead in the market by another 1.1% over Yahoo (NASD: YHOO), according to new figures released by comScore.

Google now handles 63% of all searches in the U.S., followed by Yahoo (19.6%), Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) (8.3%) Ask Network (4.8%) and AOL (4.3%).

The figures did not include searches for mapping, local directory or user-generated video sites.

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