Google tops US rankings

Google tops US rankings

Google claimed the largest share of the US search engine market in February, accounting for more than twice the number of searches of its nearest rival.

The Mountain View-based firm, whose rankings are a key goal for businesses' search engine optimisation, hosted more than 3.6 billion searches by internet users in the US, giving it a 55.8 per cent share of the market.

It also experienced a year-on-year growth of 40.3 per cent for the month.

Closest to Google was Yahoo!, which took a 20.7 per cent of the market with over 1.3 billion searches.

Making up the rest of the top five was MSN/Windows Live Search, AOL Search and Ask.com Search. AOL was the only provider in the top five to see its market share slip, with a fall of 6.1 per cent.

In a separate study by Hitwise, Google was the most popular search engine in the UK in the month up to February 10th, accounting for 77 per cent of the country's searches.

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