Google Continues to Extend Search Lead

For the ninth month in a row, Google's Internet search engine has gained market share at the expense of nearly all competitors, accounting for 43.1 percent of search traffic.

The latest edition of comScore Networks‘ qSearch metric of search engine usage, in April 2006 Google scored its ninth consecutive month of search engine market share growth, dominating the field with 43.1 percent of all U.S. searches conducted on its sites. Google’s closest competitor remained Yahoo, with a 28 percent score. Rounding out the competition: MSN with 12.9 percent, AOL with 6.9 percent, Ask.com with 5.8 percent, and MySpace.com’s search facility with 0.6 percent.

According to comScore, with the exception of Yahoo, every other major search engine ceded market share to Yahoo during April 2006