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% |