A recent ComScore study shows an increase in Yahoo Search market share of .5% in January 2009 over December 2008, giving Yahoo a market share of US based searches of about 21%.
Google on the other hand, showed a slight decrease in market share over the same period, losing the same 0.5% that Yahoo gained, closing January 2009 with a 63% share of US searches.
Americans conducted 13.5 billion searches at the core search engines, up 7 percent from December. Google Sites handled 8.5 billion core searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.8 billion and Microsoft Sites with 1.1 billion.
Source: comScore Releases January 2009 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
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Across about 30 of my sites, 95% of the search engine traffic is Google. The big G is still the King.