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US Search volume increases 11 percent over last year May 28, 2007

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Americans conducted 7.3 billion searches online in April, virtually unchanged when compared to the prior month, but up 11 percent over the same period last year.

Search breakdown

Google Sites 3.6 billion
Yahoo Sites 2.0 billion,
Microsoft Sites 757 million,
Ask Network 376 million
Time Warner Network 364 million)

Google market share up in April 2007

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Google market share has increased to almost 50%, they are now at 49.7%, according to research firm comScore Inc, the gain can be attributed to Google taking business from its closest search rivals, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask.U.S. Web users performed 7.3 billion searches in April, over 10 percent more than a year earlier. Google sites attracted 3.6 billion searches by

U.S. users during April, comScore said. In

Europe and the rest of the world Google’s share of the Web search market is more in the region of 60 percent

Shares of Google jumped 1.7% on the news