Yahoo achieves highest US search share in five years

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Yahoo achieves highest US search share in five years

Yahoo achieved its highest US search share for over five years in December 2014 according to the latest data from StatCounter, an independent website analytics provider. Google fell to the lowest monthly share yet recorded by the company. These December statistics coincide with Mozilla making Yahoo the default search engine for Firefox 34 users in the US. 

StatCounter reports that in December, Google took 75.2 percent of US search referrals, followed by Bing on 12.5 percent and Yahoo on 10.4 percent. StatCounter Global Stats data is based on over 15 billion page views per month to over three million websites.

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