Blog Post: Google received 47-49% of the search market in March, and MSN drops to 11%.Nearly one in two Internet searches now takes place using a Google search engine, according to a new
report from audience measurment firm Nielsen//NetRatings.
In March, the percentage of all Internet search at Google grew from 47-to-49 percent, Nielsen//NetRatings found. At that pace, Google will eclipse the 50 percentile, or majority milestone, in a number of weeks.
No. 2 search engine provider Yahoo finished March with a 22 percent share of the Internet search market, up about a percentage point, according to the report.
Meanwhile, No. 3 Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Search share drop from 14 percent to 11 percent.
The reason for MSN's miserable March, and whether the customers no longer using MSN were instead at the Web sites of Google or Yahoo, couldn't immediately be learned from Nielsen.
The company did say, in a press release describing the report, that Yahoo and Google gained based on their newer features, like video search and previewing Web pages.
