Google Gains Yet More Search Share From Peers

Google’s (GOOG) share of the U.S. search market increased to 59.2% in February from 58.5% in January, according to ComScore.

By contrast, Yahoo’s (YHOO) share slipped to 21.6%, from 22.2% one month earlier.

Microsoft’s (MSFT) market share slipped to 9.6%, from 9.8%.

AOL’s (TWX) share was flat at 4.9%; Ask.com (IACI) ticked up to 4.6%, from 4.5%.

ComScore noted that “Americans conducted 9.9 billion searches at the core search engines, representing a 6% decline versus January,” with all five major players seeing a decline in search queries in February, which is seasonally softer than January.