Search engine market shares refused to budge in 2011

The final search engine numbers for 2011 leave us right back where the year started.

ComScore reports that Google continues to hold two-thirds of U.S. search market, as it did throughout 2011. Microsoft and Yahoo, bonded together by a search agreement that has Yahoo slapping the user interface on top of Microsoft's Bing results, rate a combined total of about 30 percent, which is exactly where they started last January. The only big difference between now and then? Microsoft lost a whole lotta money in the process of going nowhere.