Google almost hits the big 5-0

The October U.S. Search Share rankings are out and to no one’s surprise, Google is still King with almost half of all U.S. searchers using Google as their search engine of choice. That’s up 23% over the prior year. Yahoo still comes in second with almost 24% of all searches performed in the U.S. Surprisingly, Yahoo had stronger growth at 30% over the last year. MSN holds only about 9% share and actually lost users at a rate of 8%. This ClickZ article has a nice chart which includes the top 10 for October.