Google continues to take the lead in the U.S. search market to increase to 58.5%

Foreign Media According to the report released by Internet traffic monitoring agency ComScore on Wednesday, October this year, Google USA Search Market Its share increased from 57.0% in the previous month to 58.5%, becoming one of the most popular months.

According to ComScore, five U.S. searches in October Service Merchants all achieved a search increase of at least 5%. The second-to-fifth-ranked search service providers are Yahoo, Microsoft, IAC's ask.com, and Time Warner's websites including AOL. Andrew lipsman, A ComScore spokesman, said: "Although the search volume of the top five search service providers has all increased, Google's market advantage is still very obvious ." In July October, Yahoo's U.S. search market share was 22.9%, down 0.8% from the previous month; Microsoft dropped from 10.3% to 9.7%; ask was the same as last month, 4.7%; Time Warner was 4.2%, down 0.1% from the previous month.

　　 Investment Bank Credit Suisse set Google's target share price to $900 on Tuesday, saying Google's advantage in the search market will be further enhanced. Heath Terry, a Credit Suisse analyst, said: "We believe that search is a natural monopoly and Google's market share is expected to rise further in the future until it reaches 100%." According to the ComScore report, the total number of searches by Internet users in the United States in October was 10.5 billion, and Google accounted for 6.1 billion of the total searches. Recently, ComScore adjusted the search quantity statistics, such as including users' searches on Google's video sharing website YouTube.

With the new statistics, the number of Google searches has increased by 14.8%, while Yahoo, Microsoft, and Time Warner have only one-digit growth. ComScore also said that in February October Fox The number of interactive media searches dropped by 1.8%, and its social networking site MySpace dropped by 1.7%. But ComScore does not provide MySpace and its Competitors Facebook comparison Data .