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A recent survey by comScore Networks showed that Google and Yahoo added marketshare while Ask & MSN loss ground.

Google’s market share is up to 47.4% with a 0.4% increase in December. Yahoo was edging up also.

The comScore Networks survey said that Microsoft search slid 0.5% to 10.5% of web search while Ask.com slid 0.5% to 5.4%. (this surprises me, I didn’t know Ask had that much market share)

Yahoo’s share of the search market rose 0.3% to 28.5% in December over November numbers.

US Searches in December were up 1% over November to a tune of 6.7 million searches.

What does this mean for internet marketers and SEO peeps? Not much. I don’t think any of us were reall surprised by the increase in Google’s and Yahoo’s gain. We’ll keep on designing, coding and marketing like we have been, knowing that our Google and Yahoo SERPS are more valuable than they were and are growing month by month.

These numbers just add to MSN’s Search Engine woes. MSN Live hasn’t been near the success that it was being touted to have.

I’ll go out on a limb here and predict that MSN will have to go out and by a major search engine to be competitive again. Not that they couldn’t start over, but that was what LIVE was about. Google would have to make some huge blunders and MSN would have to pull off some unbelievable miracles to compete with Google anytime soon.

I see MSN and Ask.com continue to lose ground in the search market. (for the record though, this does not mean I don’t target MSN on some of my searches…cause I do and will continue to do so…at least for a while)

Now go forth and make some money,

Don