Google has plenty to crow about, accounting for 42 percent of search sessions in November among the 15 top search engines, writes MediaPost, citing Hitwise data. Moreover, Google's average session time was more than 12 minutes. At number two, Yahoo's market share was 17 percent and average session time of more than 11 minutes. With 14 percent of search sessions and an average session time of nearly seven minute, MSN Search was third November.

Google Image Search was fourth with approximately 5 percent, and Ask.com was fifth with some 2 percent.

Google's market share in the search and directories category increased 10 percent from May to November, according to Hitwise.

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