Hitwise announced that Google accounted for 59% of the volume of searches in the US for May 2006, followed by Yahoo! and MSN, with 22% and 12% respectively. The remaining search engines tracked in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for the remaining 7% of US searches.
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Search engine market share in May 2006 |
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| Search engine | May 2006 | April 2006 | March 2006 |
| 59.3% | 58.6% | 58.3% | |
| Yahoo! | 22.0% | 22.2% | 22.3% |
| MSN | 12.1% | 12.6% | 13.1% |
| Source: HitWise | |||