SearchEngineWatch reports on qSearch data, reported by ComScore Media Metrix, on Web searches done in December 2004. Google leads the market share with 35% of the Web searches, but Google is also a back-end engine for AOL Search and Excite, which would bump Google’s share of the search to 44%.
| Search engine market shares for December 2004 |
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| Search engine | Market share % of searches done |
| 35 | |
| Yahoo! | 32 |
| MSN | 16 |
| AOL | 9 |
| Excite | 4 |
| Ask | 2 |
| Others | 2 |
| Source: ComScore Media Matrix |
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