Google Nears 60%, Nielsen Says

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NEW YORK Google is nudging toward claiming 60 percent of all Web searches conducted in the U.S., according to the latest figures from Nielsen Online.

In November, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company accounted for a dominant 57.7 percent of all searches, or over 4.2 billion searches in total.

Roughly a year ago, Google’s search share fell just below the 50 percent threshold, though Nielsen said that it has recently made some changes to its reporting methodology that make true year-over-year comparisons unavailable at this time.

Meanwhile,





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