In April 2006, Google gained in search market share for the 9th consecutive month and maintained its status as market leader with 43.1% of all US searches conducted on its sites. Yahoo! remained in second place with 28.0%, while MSN ranked third with 12.9%. Americans conducted 6.6 bln searches online in April, up 4% from last month. Google Sites led the pack with 2.9 bln search queries performed, followed by Yahoo Sites (1.9 bln), MSN-Microsoft (858 mln), Time-Warner Network (457 mln), and Ask Jeeves/Ask Network (384 mln). MySpace.com has been added to the search engine rankings for April 2006, coming in at 6th place with 43 mln search queries performed (0.6% share of the US search market). Google and Yahoo! continued their dominance among toolbar searches, combining for more than 95% of the market share in April. Google grabbed 48.0% of toolbar searches, while Yahoo! captured 47.6%.
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Share of Online Searches by Engine |
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| Apr 2005 | Mar 2006 | Apr 2006 | YTY growth | |
| 36.5% | 42.7% | 43.1% | 6.6 | |
| Yahoo! | 30.7% | 28.0% | 28.0% | -2.7 |
| MSN+Microsoft | 16.1% | 13.2% | 12.9% | -3.2 |
| Time Warner | 9.0% | 7.6% | 6.9% | -2.1 |
| Ask Network | 6.1% | 5.9% | 5.8% | -0.3 |
| MySpace.com | N/A | N/A | 0.6% | N/A |
| Total | 100% | 100% | 100% | N/A |
| Source: comScore | ||||