Google has increased its commanding share of the online search market--garnering 62.79% of searches for the four-week period ending Dec. 16, according to online ratings firm Hitwise. That reflects a
one-percentage-point gain from the four-week period ending Nov. 25. Yahoo's search engine share, meanwhile, dipped slightly to 21.9% in December from 22.43% the prior month. Rounding out the top
search engines were MSN (9.28%), Ask.com (4.07%), and AOL (0.59%). All other search properties had a combined share of 1.19%, according to Hitwise. The figures are based on the executed searches of 10
million Internet users across the top 55 search engines.