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Google retains lead in U.S. search market

Google’s share of the U.S. Web search market continues to edge beyond Yahoo! and Microsoft, according to the latest study from comScore Networks.

Google’s market share climbed from 42.7 to 43.1 percent from March to April 2006—up from 36.5 percent in April 2005.
Yahoo!’s market share remained at 28 percent between March and April, a decrease of 2.7 percent from last year.
Microsoft MSN’s market share was at 12.9 percent in April of this year, down from 16.1 percent in April 2005.
AOL dropped to 6.9 percent from 9 percent in April 2005.

For the first time, the search engine operated by MySpace.com appeared in April’s rankings—at a distant sixth place—grabbing only about one-half of one percent, but ComScore indicated it may be worth keeping an eye on them “due to the site’s remarkable popularity.”

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68 and 69 millionth records
added to WorldCat

Added on May 1 by Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, the 68 millionth record was for a videorecording of the 18th annual meeting of the American Auditory Society.

The 69 millionth record was contributed May 19 by Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands for the publication Le loisir, l'homme, l'église (Leisure, Man and the church—Papers from the 71st National Congress of the Union of Catholic Works of France).

OCLC welcomes these new member libraries

Central Elementary School
Location: Lawrenceburg, Indiana, USA
OCLC Symbol: CENES
OCLC Network: INCOLSA

Islamic University of Lebanon
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
OCLC Symbol: LEIUL
OCLC Network: OCLC Middle East and India

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WorldCat update

WorldCat is the world’s most comprehensive bibliographic database. Updated at a rate of nearly one new record every 10 seconds, WorldCat contains more than 69 million bibliographic records and 1 billion holdings contributed by more than 9,000 libraries around the world. The Open WorldCat program makes the items in library collections—physical and digital, popular or special—discoverable by people searching the Internet.

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