Google’s search engine market share in January 2007 was 53.7%, up 5.4% sequentially from 50.8% in December 2006, according to NetRatings. Google’s largest competitor, Yahoo! Search, saw its market share decline to 22.7%, down from 23.6% in December 2006.
| Top search engines in US in January 2007 | |||
| Search engine | Searches, 000 | Growth, YTY | Share |
| 3,862,374 | 40.6% | 53.7% | |
| Yahoo! | 1,629,995 | 28.8% | 22.7% |
| MSN/Live | 642,694 | 2.5% | 8.9% |
| AOL | 388,966 | 5.6% | 5.4% |
| Ask.com | 132,800 | 1.2% | 1.8% |
| My Web | 65,819 | N/A | 0.9% |
| Dogpile.com | 41,991 | 34.4% | 0.6% |
| EarthLink | 36,604 | 34.1% | 0.5% |
| Comcast | 32,001 | N/A | 0.4% |
| BellSouth | 30,824 | N/A | 0.4% |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings | |||