Hitwise’s latest search engine figures show a huge rise for Google in the UK. The Google search properties (Google.co.uk and Google.com) accounted for 87 percent of all UK searches in May 2008 representing a 12 percent increase compared to May 2007. Yahoo search properties accounted for 4.09 percent of UK searches in May 2008, compared to 8.58% in April 2007 – but slightly up on April 2008’s low of 4.01%. MSN search properties accounted for 3.72 percent against 5.46% in May 2007 and Ask search properties accounted for 3.07 percent with 4.96% in May 2007.
