Google continued to build on its lead in U.S. search market share, claiming nearly half of all searches conducted in April, according to research released by comScore Networks. Hitwise placed the volume at 65 percent of U.S.-based searches in April.

According to comScore, Google gained 1.4 share points from March to reach 49.7 percent of the U.S. search market in April. Yahoo’s search share dipped less than one point to 26.8 percent, and Microsoft held at 10.3 percent of the U.S. search market with less than a one-point drop as well.

In April, 7.3 billion searches were conducted by U.S. Internet users. Search volumes were up 11 percent from April 2006. Google accounted for 3.6 billion search queries; Yahoo served two billion; and Microsoft users queried 757 million searches

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