Google Extends Lead Over Yahoo in U.S. Search Market

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 13, 2009 - 10:29am.

Reston Va. - Google (NASD: GOOG) again led the U.S. search market in February, conducting 63.3% of all Internet searches, according to new data released by Internet audience measurement firm comScore.

Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) ranked second (20.6%), followed by Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) (8.2%), Ask.com (4.1%) and AOL (NYSE: TWX) (3.9%). Google's lead over Yahoo grew 0.7% from January.

All told, Americans conducted 13.1 billion searches on the core search engines, down 3% from the prior month.