Lately Americans carried out more than 7.6 billion searches in the time period; Google accounted for approximately 4 billion of those searches.

Yahoo remained in second position with 26% (2 billion) of total searches, Microsoft ranked third with 10.3% (782 million) of searches and Ask.com stayed in fourth with 5% (384 million) of searches. Time Warner Network round out the top five with 4.6% (348 million) of May searches.

Google was actually the only search engine to earn in share (1%). Yahoo fell 0.4% as did Ask.com (down 0.1%) and Time Warner Network (0.4%). Microsoft sites remained stable with no change.