Yahoo gains US search share at Google's expense

Gaining the status of default search engine in Firefox is paying off for Yahoo, which has grown its share of the U.S. search market over the last three months while Google’s portion has dropped slightly.Neither Yahoo’s gains nor Google’s losses were massive, according to Web analytics company StatCounter. In January, Yahoo’s share of the U.S. search market rose to 10.9 percent. That’s a minor increase from the 10.4 share the struggling Internet company claimed in January and a sizea