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Looking at Q1 numbers for our client base, Google continues to gain paid search market share.

GYM share

From December ‘07 to March ‘08, Google accrued an additional 3 points of overall paid search traffic.

Month Google Yahoo Microsoft
2007-01 73% 22% 5%
2007-02 69% 26% 5%
2007-03 72% 24% 4%
2007-04 76% 20% 4%
2007-05 74% 21% 5%
2007-06 73% 21% 6%
2007-07 76% 19% 5%
2007-08 77% 18% 5%
2007-09 76% 19% 5%
2007-10 79% 16% 5%
2007-11 79% 16% 5%
2007-12 79% 16% 5%
2008-01 79% 16% 5%
2008-02 81% 14% 5%
2008-03 82% 13% 5%
2008-04 81% 14% 5%
























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  1. Megapixels, May 13, 2008:

    Yahoo is really a company in trouble in more ways then one. If their own management can’t turn things around, they should really relent and let one of their many suitors just buy them. I really hate to see such good real estate crumbling.

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