Just over a week ago, NetRatings said Google went over the 50 percent mark in powering web searches in the US. New stats today from Hitwise put them nearing the 60 percent mark. Here's the percentage of searches each service handled over the past three months, according to Hitwise:
| Domain | March 2006 | April 2006 | May 2006 |
| www.google.com | 58.3% | 58.6% | 59.3% |
| search.yahoo.com | 22.3% | 22.2% | 22.0% |
| search.msn.com | 13.1% | 12.6% | 12.1% |
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Data based on four week period: |
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How about a side-by-side of from the three major rating services? OK:
| April 2006 | comScore | NetRatings | Hitwise |
| 43% | 50% | 59% | |
| Yahoo | 28% | 22% | 22% |
| MSN | 13% | 11% | 12% |
