comScore Releases October Search Engine Rankings, Google up, Yahoo flat

From the comScore report, basically things remained the same for October. Google grabbed a couple tenths of a percent from MSN and ended the month at 45.4%. Yahoo captured 28.2% and Microsoft snagged 11.7%. For Ask, searches have been flat the last two months which can't be good considering the massive amount of money they spent on advertising the ask.com site on tv the last few months.

From the release:

Americans conducted 6.8 billion searches online in October, up 3 percent versus September. Annual growth rates in search query volume remained strong with a 33-percent increase versus year ago.

So even as social networking and bookmarking sites like del.icio.us pick up steam, searches are still up 1/3rd from last year.