The latest figures released by comScore show Google and Yahoo! making further gains during the month of October (for U.S. search queries), at the expense of MSN Live and Time Warner's AOL network (which includes Netscape Search). Ask.com remained steady. This marks a continuing trend in the search market that MSN is a tough time trying to reverse. Here are the numbers posted today on Information Week:

• Google: 45.4% of U.S. search queries, up 0.3% from September.
• Yahoo: 28.2%, up 0.1%
• MSN Live: 11.7%, down 0.2%
• Ask: 5.8%
• AOL: 5.4%, down 0.2% 

According to the report, Google's share of the U.S. search market has risen by 6.4% since last October, going from 39% to 45.4%. Microsoft's and Yahoo's share fell by 2.9 and 1 percentage points respectively during the same period.