Google’s search market share rose modestly in April while Yahoo and Microsoft saw their standings in the U.S. slip slightly.
ComScore reported Monday that Google now holds 64.2 percent of the online search market, up from 63.7 percent in March. Google’s 4 percent growth in traffic came during a month where the search market rebounded, growing 3 percent in the U.S. to 14.8 billion searches.
Search market rebounds with 3 percent growth in the U.S.
Yahoo and Microsoft both lost 0.1 points of market share. Yahoo ended April with 20.4 percent of the market and Microsoft finished with 8.2 percent.
They both grew traffic slower than the market’s expansion.
