New Search Market Share Numbers Released: Google Dominates

February's US Internet Search Share Rankings were announced yesterday by Neielsen. The results were not surprising. Google has a significant share of the market at 58.7% of the market. This is an increase from 56.9% only a month previous in January.

Yahoo, and Microsoft saw significant decreases in their market share during the month of February. Yahoo went from 19% to 17.6%, and Microsoft went from 12.1% to 11.2%. When you only have such a small market share, losing 1% can be about 10% of their business in this case.

If Microsoft drops any lower, they will become completely meaningless in this game against Google. Maybe instead of just buying out Yahoo, they should buy up, AOL, Ask.com and the others in addition. Then at least then they would become competitive!