Regulators abhor a vacuum, so it is fitting that on this month's 10th anniversary of the antitrust judgment against Microsoft, the Federal Trade Commission alerted Google that it's now under investigation as a monopolist. Considering how much intense competition Microsoft has faced for years, a government claim of monopoly is best understood as a hex—and a lagging indicator that, to the contrary, Google has passed its greatest point of market power.
The data shows that Google accounted for 92.02 percent of UK internet searches in June, representing the best performance for the company in 2011, an increase of 1.5 percent since May and a yearly change of 0.2 percent.
In comparison, Microsoft sites accounted for only 2.88 percent of UK searches, a decline of -1.38 percent since May 2011 and a yearly decrease of -0.24 percent. Yahoo! sites also saw a decrease in their share of UK market, with searches from their sites dropping -0.11 percent from 3.08 percent in May to 2.96 percent in June.
Aside from Google, Ask was the only other search engine to experience an increased share in UK searches from May to June, climbing from 1.40 percent to 1.43 percent - however overall Ask sites experienced a yearly change of -0.09 percent.
According to recent reports in MSNBC and other media outlets, the popularity of Google's Chrome browser is also growing around the world and is more popular than rivals Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Albania.
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