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Google is the search engine of choice for people at work and at school. That’s what it looks like when you look at the number of visitors sent by the various search engines to a wide array of sites as seen by Enquisite. Last week, Richard Zwicky posted a chart representing traffic driven by various search engines in the month of December. (Search Engine Marketshare - December)

During the first three weeks of the month, Google commanded over 75% of search directed traffic. In the final ten days of the month however, Google driven traffic declined significantly.

Over the course of the month, Google’s trend-line goes down 10% from 78.43% in the first five days of December to 69.63% in the last five days.

Three other search engines shared that 10% rather evenly. Yahoo drove about 3% more search traffic over the course of the month. MSN was responsible for about 2% more traffic and MSN Live gained 1%. 3% of the remainder is spread thoughout minor gains shown by Ask, Comcast and MyWebSearch.

Interestingly, about 2% of search traffic shifted towards image search engines Google Images (1.5% increase) and Yahoo Images (0.5% increase).