It has been reported that Google has so far maintained its share of about 65% of the U.S. search in the month of May whereas Yahoo and Bing has also maintained their positions. Google has retained its score of 65% U.S search share through the month of May although it was 65.4% for the month of April previously. It has also been reported that the top rated search engines like Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing has maintained their search share from the month of April having 15.9 and 14.1 percent shares, respectively. Nevertheless, U.S made more than 17 billion explicit core searches in May which is 5% more than it has made in April.
Google sites accounted for 11.2 billion searches collectively and on the other hand Yahoo sites racked up 2.7 billion, where as Microsoft sites ended with 2.4 billion searches. Point to ponder is that Google has maintained its share despite being fairly quiet in terms of search innovation in 2011 so far, along with the exception of some search quality improvements to its Caffeine infrastructure. However, Google will convene its annual search news conference June 14 at the Forum at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
Marissa Mayer, who’s Google’s usual host for its search events, has eventually been moved to Google’s geolocal team, where she is shepherding the company’s work in contextual discovery, or the idea that it will target search results to mobile phone users based on their location. However, the company, which last month unveiled its Google Wallet and Google Offers mobile payment and local deals services, could announce some breakthroughs.
