It is web historic: In November YouTube had more searches from U.S. users than Yahoo.

We told you one month ago that YouTube was about to pass Yahoo as the second largest “search engine”.  Now it has happened. According to the November rankings from Comscore the former dominant search engine, Yahoo, now receives fewer searches than video site YouTube.

In November a total of 18,06 million searches were registered in the American market. Of these, Google received 7,98 million, YouTube 2,79million and Yahoo 2,59 million.

That is the first time YouTube receives more searches than Yahoo.

One might now ask whether YouTube may in fact become the next Google.

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There are some interesting data in the latest report from Comscore: YouTube is just about to pass Yahoo as the secondly most used search engine in the USA.

In October 2,7 billion searches were made through Yahoo compared to 2,6 billion searches on YouTube, according to the numbers from Comscore. This type of data has made some observers ask whether YouTube will be the next Google.

Google received 8,2 billion searches in the same period. It is still an overwhelming dominance. And being the owner of YouTube, Google for sure is not worried about the success of the video site.

Overall both Google and Yahoo are increasing their market share, while other companies are losing.

Interestingly Yahoo keeps a leading position in Japan with a 51 percent market share, according to another report from Comscore.

Comscore points out that 340 million searchers conducted nearly 29 billion searches in the Asia- Pacific region in September, ranking the region higher than both America and Europe.