Google reigned at the top of January search charts

According to a survey conducted by Nielsen/NetRatings, 39% of all active Internet surfers used Google to search in the month of January. Yahoo and MSN came in the #2 spot each with 30%, followed by AOL (15%) and AskJeeves (8%).

Google has reigned at the top but Yahoo and MSN would love to steal the throne and are eager to take both market share and status away from Google.

Last week Yahoo ended its partnership with Google and debuted its own search technology as it moves to regain the throne it once held. With Google no longer powering Yahoo's searches there will undoubtedly be a decline in Google's numbers in the months to come, but enough to get bumped from the top? We shall see.

Meanwhile MSN continues working on its own search technology, MSNBot, but for now shows Inktomi listings on MSN Search.

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