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Google and Bing to gain as Yahoo! falls
2011-04-14
Google and Bing made advances in the USA Internet search market in March at the expense of Ask, AOL, and Yahoo!, according to figures released Wed. by industry tracker comScore. Google continued to be the prime tool used to find online info, handling 65.7 p.c of "explicit" questions in comparison to 65.4 % the month before, comScore reported. Yahoo! Internet sites stayed the second preferred place for Net searches, but its portion of questions slipped 0.4 percent in the month to 15.7 %, according to comScore. The amount of online searches done using Microsoft's Bing service rose 0.3 p.c to 13.9 when put next to Feb . Since Bing powers Web search at Yahoo! Sites , the engine basically accounted for 29.6 % of US questions in what was seen as positive momentum for Microsoft in the market. Ask and AOL saw their search shares drop a tenth of a % each to 3.1 and 1.6 respectively, according to comScore. More than 16.9 bill "explicit core searches" were conducted in March, with Google inclining to 11.1 of them, comScore reported. Explicit searches were described as folks looking for online info they obviously meant to interact with.
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