Google Sites slightly increased their lead in June as the most popular search property in the UK — to 75.3 percent of all search queries, followed by eBay (5.5 percent), Yahoo Sites (4.3 percent) and Microsoft Sites (3.4 percent), according to a comScore analysis, writes MarketingCharts.

AOL LLC's acquisition of UK social networking property Bebo.com expanded its share of search queries to 2.3 percent, edging out Facebook.com (2.2 percent) for sixth place.

Other findings from June 2008:

• Some 3.9 billion total searches were conducted in the UK during the month.
• 31 million UK internet users conducted at least one search.
• UK searchers conducted an average of 124 searches per searcher during the month, or 4.1 searches per day.