Google held onto its hefty lead in search market share, while Microsoft saw a slight gain in December 2011 compared to the same month in the prior year, according to comScore.
U.S. Search Engine Rankings: Search Share*
| December 2010 | December 2011 | Point change | |
| Google sites | 66.6% | 65.9% | -0.7 |
| Microsoft sites | 12.0 | 15.1 | 3.1 |
| Yahoo sites | 16.0 | 14.5 | -1.5 |
| Ask Network | 3.5 | 2.9 | -0.6 |
| AOL | 1.9 | 1.6 | -0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 100% |
Source: comScore
*Methodology: U.S. market share for "explicit core search," which excludes contextually driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with search results.
Articles written by ClickZ's stats staff.

June 6, 2012
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