Google Inc. extended its share of Internet searches in April to 61.6 percent, while Yahoo Inc. sites and the other major search engines saw slight declines between March and April, according to comScore's April search rankings.
Google's share of Internet searches rose 1.8 percent from March to April, from 59.8 percent in March to 61.6 percent.
Yahoo, meanwhile, the target a possible proxy fight and of a takeover bid by Microsoft earlier this month, saw its share decline 0.9 percent, from 21.3 percent to 20.4 percent of searches.
Following Yahoo were Microsoft Corp.'s sites, down to 9.1 percent of searches in April from 9.4 percent in March; AOL LLC, down to 4.6 percent from 4.8 percent; and Oakland-based Ask.com, down to 4.3 percent of searches from 4.7 percent in March.
Searches beyond the core domain, such as map searches and searches for user-generated videos, were not included in the numbers.
The rankings also reported that Americans conducted 10.6 billion searches on the core search engines, a 2 percent decline from March. More than 6.5 billion core searches were conducted on Google, followed by 2.2 billion on Yahoo sites and 961 million on Microsoft sites. AOL saw 491 million searches, and Ask.com saw 458 million, according to comScore.
Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)walked away earlier this month from its offer to buy Sunnyvale-based Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) for $33 a share, or about $47.5 billion. Yahoo said it would take a minimum of $37 a share.
Reports since have said Microsoft in considering other deals with Yahoo that would not be a complete takeover. The software giant is looking for ways to better compete with Mountain View-based Google (NASDAQ: GOOG).
Investor Carl Icahn has also begun a proxy battle to force a sale of Yahoo, and has compiled a slate of directors he wants to have take over at the company.
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