In November 2005, Google maintained lead in the U.S. search market with 39.8 percent of all the searches submitted according to comScore qSearch Analysis.
This report released on January 6 also shows that Google increased it’s share by 5.2% compared to the same month of 2004, while yahoo dropped by 2.5% and MSN is down by 1.8%.

Additional findings from the November monthly analysis include:

• U.S. users conducted 5.15 billion searches online in November 2005, up 9 percent from November 2004.
• Google Sites generated 2.05 billion searches measured in November 2005, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 1.52 billion searches and MSN-Microsoft Sites with 728.8 million searches. (Time Warner Network – 446 million searches and Ask Jeeves – 336.3 million searches).
• With regard to toolbar searches – which constituted 12 percent of searches in November – Yahoo sites led with 48.5 percent, followed by Google’s 46.4 percent share, according to comScore.

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