A Modern monopoly...

Over 87% of all UK searches during May went through Google, according to new statistics out today.

Google sites accounted for 87.30% of all searches throughout the month, according to Hitwise, up 9% year-on-year.

Second was Yahoo!, but considerably behind Google with 4.09% of searches, followed by Microsoft (3.72%) and Ask (3.07%).

All three have seen year-on-year decreases in search traffic, according to Hitwise, although each had increased marginally on the previous month.