Google and Yahoo remain on the top of the U.S. web search market
{{date|January 16, 2007}}
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At present day [[w:Google Inc.|Google Inc.]] holds the leading position on the U.S. Web search market. With the gain of 0.4 percent reached in December, its share of the market has increased to 47.4 percent. [[w:Yahoo Inc.|Yahoo Inc.]] follows Google in second position - as stated by a Monday survey, it has also ranked higher.

According to comScore Networks Inc., a firm dealing with Web audience measurement, [[w:Microsoft Corp.|Microsoft Corp.]] is in third place. However, its share decreased 0.5 percent to 10.5 percent of Web searches performed by American users. The slight decline has also been suffered by Ask.com's share - it diminished by 0.1 percent to reach 5.4 percent.

The [[United States]] has been named by the comScore Networks Inc. the largest [[Internet]] market in the world. [[Google]]'s share of the U.S. Web search market has continuously grown during the recent period of over a year. As for Yahoo, its share of the market became 0.3 percent higher, having reached 28.5 percent in December compared to November, as marked by the survey.

U.S. Web users carried 6.7 billion searches in December - that means from November the overall number of searches increased by 1 percent. Since December, 2005 the number of U.S. Web searches has become 30 percent higher - 3.2 billion searches were conducted by web users on Google sites and 1.9 billion searches on Yahoo. 

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*{{source|url=http://www.yepeoo.com/google-yahoo-p.html|title=Google and Yahoo Increased their Share
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*{{source|url=http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2007-01-15T235845Z_01_N15318699_RTRUKOC_0_US-GOOGLE-SEARCH.xml&WTmodLoc=InternetNewsHome_C1_%5bFeed%5d-6|title=Google, Yahoo gain share in U.S. Web search market|author=|pub=Reuters|date=January 15, 2007}}

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At present day Google Inc. holds the leading position on the U.S. Web search market. With the gain of 0.4 percent reached in December, its share of the market has increased to 47.4 percent. Yahoo Inc. follows Google in second position - as stated by a Monday survey, it has also ranked higher.

According to comScore Networks Inc., a firm dealing with Web audience measurement, Microsoft Corp. is in third place. However, its share decreased 0.5 percent to 10.5 percent of Web searches performed by American users. The slight decline has also been suffered by Ask.com's share - it diminished by 0.1 percent to reach 5.4 percent.

The United States has been named by the comScore Networks Inc. the largest Internet market in the world. Google's share of the U.S. Web search market has continuously grown during the recent period of over a year. As for Yahoo, its share of the market became 0.3 percent higher, having reached 28.5 percent in December compared to November, as marked by the survey.

U.S. Web users carried 6.7 billion searches in December - that means from November the overall number of searches increased by 1 percent. Since December, 2005 the number of U.S. Web searches has become 30 percent higher - 3.2 billion searches were conducted by web users on Google sites and 1.9 billion searches on Yahoo.
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