Google's still on top of the search heap, as the giant accounted for just over 70% of all searches in the U.S. in August, according to Hitwise. Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com each received 18%, 5% and 3% of
search market share, respectively.
Hitwise also found that Google was increasingly driving traffic to social networking and online video sites. For example, social networking sites
received almost 11% of their traffic from Google in August, up 44% from a year ago.
Meanwhile, online video sites received nearly a quarter of their traffic from Google, up 56% from last August.
The search giant also drove nearly a third of all traffic to health and medical sites. --Tameka Kee