Search Share: Google Down, Ask Up

Yahoo also made a slight gain in its share of the search market, while search on AOL plunged four percent in July 2006 from the same period last year. reported on its July 2006 US search engine rankings. Google's total share of US searches declined a full percentage point from June to July, leaving it with 43.7 percent of the market. That is still a boost over July 2005, where Google's 36.5 percent had it only six percentage points over Yahoo at that time. MSN/Microsoft remained the same, with 12.8 percent of shares unchanged from June. AOL's search fell four percent year-over-year, with the company attracting 5.9 percent of US searches in July; that represented a 0.3 percent increase from June, though.