COMscore, a leading internet research firm, released their October 2008 Search Engine usage statistics a few days ago and Google still retains a sizeable lead on all other Search Engines combined.
Google led the U.S. in search with 63.1 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo (20.5%), MSN (8.5%), Ask (4.2%), and AOL (3.7%).
Of the 12.6 Billion searches by U.S. residents in October Google provided results for 8 billion of those an increase of 7 percent from September of 2008. Yahoo and MSN came in a distance second and third, 2.6 Billion and 1.1 Billion respectively, as Google continues to increase its search footprint in the US market.