According to comScore research, the popularity of search engines in the United States in May 2008 was as follows: Google is used for 61.8% of all queries, Yahoo! handles 20.6%, Microsoft search engines serve 8.5%, AOL and Ask Network - 4.5% each.

In doing so, Google and Yahoo! show 2% growth compared with April 2008, and contribution of Microsoft fell by 4%. In May, the Americans made 10.8 billion queries to search engines. If to take into account the additional services, for example, YouTube, eBay, Amazon, Facebook, the total number of requests is about 15.5 billion.

LimitNone company, specializing in program software, has brought an action agains Google. The company claims that Google is using e-mail technology and calandars' data illigaly.

By searchenginejournal.com

Recent consumer survey has shown that Google has a very good reputation.
Participants had to rate 60 companies in 6 different categories:
Customer treatment, products and service, social responsibility, etc.
1. Google
2. Johnson & Johnson
3. Intel Corporation
4. General Mills
5. Kraft Foods
6. Berkshire-Hathaway Inc
7. 3M Company
8. The Coca-Cola Company
9. Honda Motor Co.
10. Microsoft

By searchenginejournal.com

In the near future Google will provide advertisers with an opportunity to learn where it is better to put ads so the visitor's attention is immediately drawn to the ads, tells Wall Street Journal

Google Local Business Center was subjected to modernization, said Mike Blumenthal. The main difference he pointed to is applications' design change. In his opinion these changes will help unite more information, taking up less space on the screen.