Hitwise and Nielsen/NetRatings revealed the share-of-search stats for the months of January 2006 and December 2005.

Nielsen has put the crown on Google with 50.8 percent of all searches in December. Yahoo! follows closely behind with with 23.6 percent. MSN comes third with 8.4 percent, then AOL search with 6.1 percent. MSN has lost the biggest share equaling to 9.7 percent.

Google comes first according to Hitwise as well, with 63.06 percent for the month of January. Yahoo! experienced a slight drop from 21.6 percent in December to 21.4 percent in January. MSN Search showed a slight jump from 9.5 percent in December to 9.9 percent in January.