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comScore, Inc. , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In September 2009, Americans conducted 13.8 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 64.9 percent search market share. Microsoft Sites grabbed 9.4 percent market share, representing a slight gain versus August.

September 2009 U.S. Core Search Rankings

Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in September with 64.9 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (18.8 percent), and Microsoft Sites (9.4 percent). Ask Network captured 3.9 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 3.0 percent. Read the full story

Among search engine giants like Yahoo going down the drain and Microsoft bidding for more than $44 billion dollars, Google is still able to keep up the race and make considerable profits.

Constant updates to their various online tools and simple yet powerful software with great GUI has kept them much ahead of competition like Ask, Yahoo, Interactive Corp and Microsoft.

Though the number one search engine on the internet reported a fourth-quarter results fell by 8.6% to 515.90 which is the lowest closing price since September 10, they are still able to stay ahead.