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Google's US Search Share Up, Yahoo and Microsoft Down. Google continued to increase its share of the U.S. search market in
February, widening the gap that Microsoft hopes to fill by buying
Yahoo.
In February, Google's share of core searches by U.S.
Internet users rose to 59.2 percent, up from 58.5 percent in January,
according to figures from market research company comScore.
During
the same period, Yahoo's share slipped to 21.6 percent, from 22.2
percent a month earlier, while Microsoft's share slipped to 9.6 percent
from 9.8 percent.
AOL is clinging to a 4.9 percent share,
while Ask saw its share rise slightly to 4.6 percent from 4.5 percent
in January. Worldwide, the number three search engine is China's
Baidu.com, behind Google and Yahoo but ahead of Microsoft's MSN-Windows
Live.
Microsoft has released an update for Windows Vista designed to detect
activation exploits that bypass product activation and that interfere
with usual Windows operation. This update is tagged as KB940510.
According
to Microsoft "when the update is installed, no functionality of your
operating system will be affected. If no exploits are detected, the
update silently exits. If exploits are detected, you will be provided a
link to a Web site that describes how you can remove the exploits. When
the exploits are removed, you may be asked to use a valid product key
to activate your copy of Windows. If you do not want to remove the
exploits, Windows may disable the exploits and then ask you to use a
valid product key to activate Windows."