Google’s Search Lead Continues To Grow

Nielsen/NetRatings put out its latest search engine market share standings for May 2007, and Google continues to gain, increasing more than a full point to 56.3%. Hitwise’s latest numbers had Google drop a tenth of a percentage point, but still holding a commanding 65.13%. Finally, ComScore’s numbers for May showed Google up a full point as well, breaking fifty percent on their scales for the first time with 50.7%.
The numbers:

Nielsen
Hitwise
ComScore

Google
May: 56.3%
April: 55.2%
Change: +1.1
May: 65.13%
April: 65.26%
Change: -0.13
May: 50.7%
April: 49.7%
Change: +1.0

Yahoo
May: 21.5%
April: 21.9%
Change: -0.4
May: 20.89%
April: 20.73%
Change: +0.16
May:26.4%
April:26.8%
Change: -0.4

Microsoft
May: 8.4%
April: 9.0%
Change: -0.6
May: 8.4%
April: 8.46%
Change: -0.06
May: 10.3%
April: 10.3%
Change: 0

AOL
May: 5.3%
April: 5.4%
Change: -0.1

May: 4.6%
April: 5.0%
Change: -0.4

Ask
May: 2.0%
April: 1.8%
Change: +0.2
May: 3.92%
April: 3.69%
Change: +0.23
May: 5.0%
April: 5.1%
Change: -0.1

Original post by Nathan Weinberg