Google overtakes Yahoo as the most popular web destination

Google Inc, long dominant in the internet search market, has overtaken rival Yahoo Inc as the most popular web destination in the US, according to forthcoming data Google saw its US audience grow 18% in April compared with the period a year earlier, to 141.1 million. Yahoo's audience, meanwhile, grew only seven percent to 140.6 million, Microsoft Corp came in third at roughly 121 million. While Yahoo has watched its share of the search market fall further behind that of Google in recent years, it had been able to hold an edge over its younger rival in total audience. But Google has also expanded its breadth of such internet services recently, as it further evolves from its origins as a search provider. Yahoo has faced enormous challenges in trying to keep pace with Google.