Google increased its U.S. dominance in search in April, extending its lead over rivals Yahoo and Microsoft, according to comScore.

Google's search properties grabbed a record-high 61.6 percent of the U.S. market in April, up from 59.8 percent in March.

Out of the top five search engines, Google was the only company, that saw an increase in the number of searches in April. Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL and Ask all had a decrease of 5 percent or more.

Yahoo's U.S. search market share dipped to 20.4 percent in April, a 0.9 percent decrease from March, while Microsoft fell to 9.1 percent from 9.4 percent. AOL saw a small dip of 0.2 percent to 4.6 percent and Ask fell to 4.3 percent from 4.7 percent.

Americans conducted 10.6 billion searches at the core search engines, representing a 2 percent decline compared to March.

Google sites had more than 6.5 billion core searches, followed by Yahoo with 2.2 billion and Microsoft with 961 million. AOL saw 491 million searches, and Ask saw 458 million.

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