Microsoft has secured 30% of the search market, largely at Google’s expense, according to data from Experian Hitwise. The new March numbers claim that Microsoft achieved 30.01% of the U.S. search market share in March — 14.32% from Bing.com and 15.69% from Yahoo Search, which Bing now powers. ...

Today marks the end of Ask.com as a search engine; the once-mighty search giant will lay off the vast majority of its engineers and concede its small piece of the search market to Google and Microsoft. Ask.com, formerly known as Ask Jeeves, was once one of the world’s most recognizable search ...