The numbers reported for US search engine market share remained mostly unchanged from September to October 2006, with Americans doing 6.8 billion searches during the month.
comScore's qSearch showed Google maintained its lead in the US market, with 45.4 percent of those searches. That represented a gain of 0.3 percent over September.
Yahoo reversed a slide that lowered them to 28.1 percent in September. They gained slightly to 28.2 in October. Microsoft gave up 0.2 percent to decline to 11.7 percent, after falling 0.6 percent in September to 11.9.
Ask.com held its 5.8 share, while sites on the Time Warner network, including AOL, decreased to 5.4 percent. The 6.8 billion searches represented an annual growth of search query volume, with a 33 percent rise from last year.
Sites on Google's network handled 3.1 billion queries in the period, followed by Yahoo's 1.9 billion. No one else topped one billion, as Microsoft handled 796 million search queries. Ask processed 392 million, and Time Warner did 366 million in October.
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