Searches on Google 'up in March'

16th April 2008

Google extended its reach into the search sphere in March, according to new figures.

A report from comScore indicates that the search giant grew its market share to 59.8 per cent from 59.2 per cent between February and March of this year.

With Google leading the way, Yahoo! was named the second most prominent engine with a share of 21.3 per cent of searches, while the corresponding share for Microsoft's sites was 9.4 per cent.

Some 10.8 billion searches were conducted on core engines by web users in the US last month, representing growth of nine per cent since February.

And all the core search engines saw an increase in query gains, with core searches numbering 6.4 billion on Google, 2.3 billion on Yahoo! and one billion on Microsoft.

Meanwhile, Google came top on the list of the top 50 properties on which searches are conducted, registering 8.3 billion searches, while Yahoo! saw 2.4 billion over the month and Microsoft one billion.

The news comes after it was announced this week that an extended deal between Salesforce and Google is to see the delivery of online software applications.