Google's share remained steady from April 2008, however when compared to May 2007, its share was up by 12%.
By comparison, Yahoo! accounted for just over 4% of UK searches in May 2008, which was up 2% on April.
Hitwise's figures vary from that of comScore, which reported last week that Google accounted for 74.4% of searches in April and Yahoo! accounted for 4.4%.
MSN was the third most popular search website during May according to Hitwise, as it accounted for around 3.70% of UK searches. It was followed by Ask search properties, which accounted for just over 3% of searches.
MSN increased 2% compared to April 2008 and Ask increased by 6%.
In the US, Google accounted for 68.29% of all U.S. searches in May. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 19.95%, 5.89% and 4.23% respectively.
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