Google proved the most popular search engine in the US during November, according to new research.Figures produced by Nielsen Online revealed that, during the period, the internet giant was used for a total of over 4.25 billion searches, representing 57.7 per cent of all online queries.
This represents an increase on October's results, when Google users were found to be responsible for a total of 4.40 billion searches - 55.5 per cent of the complete number.
Meanwhile, Yahoo! was found to the second most popular search engine, having processed 1.32 billion queries, or 17.9 per cent of searches.
In third place over the month was fellow rival Microsoft, which recorded 880.6 million queries, representing 12 per cent of searches conducted in the country.
Coming fourth and fifth in the popularity stakes were AOL and Ask.com, which were involved in the processing of 4.5 per cent and 2.7 per cent of internet searches respectively during November.
These findings roughly corroborate those published earlier this month by comScore, which also indicated that Google was the top search property.
According to its statistics, the company had a total of 5.9 billion queries during November, representing 58.8 per cent of the search market.
The digital measuring firm also identified Yahoo! as the second most popular search engine provider, suggesting that its sites experienced 22.4 per cent of the total number of queries.
