In April, Google Sites continued to reign among search properties in the UK with 74.2 percent of all searches, according to comScore's first report on the UK search market that's based on its qSearch 2.0 online search measurement tool, MarketingCharts writes.

comScore now measures UK local-market properties where search activity occurs, such as Rightmove and Bebo.com.

• eBay ranked second with 6 percent, followed by Yahoo Sites (4.3 percent) and Microsoft Sites (3.4 percent).
• Popular social-networking property Facebook.com claimed a 1.8 percent market share in April.
• Two UK properties, Rightmove Sites (0.8 percent share) and Bebo.com (0.7 percent share), ranked among the top 10.

Other notable findings from April 2008:

• Some 4.1 billion searches were conducted in the UK, more than in any other European country.
• 31.2 million UK Internet users made at least one search during the month.
• UK searchers conducted an average of 130 searches per searcher during the month, or more than 4 searches per day.