Hitwise released a press report showing that Google stays at 72 % of U.S. Searches in February 2009
Google accounted for 72.11 % of all U.S. searches while Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com received 17.04 %, 5.56 % and 3.74 % respectively.
According to Forbes Google Handles 235 Million Searches Per Day. Here is the total Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine providers, as provided by Hitwise:
| Domain | Feb-09 | Jan-09 | Feb-08 | Year-over-year % change |
| google.com | 72.11% | 72.09% | 66.47% | 8% |
| search.yahoo.com | 17.04% | 17.81% | 20.60% | -17% |
| search.msn.com | 5.56%* | 5.44%* | 6.95%* | -20% |
| www.ask.com | 3.74% | 3.31% | 4.16% | -10% |
The remaining 46 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.56 % of U.S. searches. Data is based on four-week rolling periods from the Hitwise sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users.