Interestingly, Google took a bigger slice of a diminishing online search marketplace. According to comScore, total core searches in the U.S. online marketplace fell 2% to 10.582 billion in April from 10.771 billion in March.
Yahoo, the No. 2 player, fell to a 20.4% share of the core search market--down from 21.3% in March--while No. 3 player Microsoft dropped to 9.1% from 9.84% in March. While Microsoft has been courting Yahoo, their combined share of the online search marketplace (29.5%) would still be less than half of Google's.
AOL fell to 4.6% from 4.8% of the market, while Ask.com fell to 4.3% from 4.7% of the market.
--Joe Mandese