Exactly 31% shares for the Search Alliance: Bing captured 14.7% shares and Yahoo had 16.3% shares of search engine market in August 2011, while Google dropped below 65% shares for the first time since September 2009

The Search Alliance Bing and Yahoo gained shares while the world’s largest search engine dropped to below 65% shares for the first time since September 2009.  According to comScore dataset, the combo Bing and Yahoo captured a total of 31.0% search engine market shares in August 2011, compared to July which was at 30.5% shares (an increase of 0.5% shares).

Bing’s August search engine market share increased to 14.7% shares from 14.4% shares in July, or an increase of 0.3% shares.

Yahoo Search powered by Bing increased a little bit to 16.3% shares from 16.1% shares in July, or an increase of 0.2% shares.

Google's search engine market shares in America dropped to below 65% for the first time since September 2009, as per comScore. The giant search engine’s August market share dropped to 64.8% shares from 65.1% shares in July (a drop of 0.3%).