Google remains top search engine

Google remained the world´s top search engine in August, a new report has found.

comScore found that Google increased its market share of the search market by 1.3 per cent to 56.5 per cent.

This means that the search giant more than 5.5 billion core searches over the month.

Its main rivals, Yahoo! and Microsoft both lost ground to Google. The former´s market share dropped by 0.2 per cent to 23.5 per cent and Bill Gates´ search engine dropped one per cent to 12.3 per cent.

A statement from comScore added: "In comScore´s recently introduced expanded search report, the largest gains were recorded by YouTube and Craigslist, with nine per cent and 7.6 per cent increases in their number of search queries."

Reports recently suggested that both Microsoft and Google could be trying to buy a share of the social network site Facebook in order to guarantee future advertising revenues.