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Stocklin brings a decade of legal experience with interactive media and marketing companies to her new role.

Google Inc. slightly increased its leading market share among U.S. Internet-search engines last month, while Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search engine also gained market share, according to market researcher comScore Inc.

Search partners are search engines that syndicate Google's AdWords ads. These websites aren't large enough to build their own ad serving platform, and don't have enough users to attract advertisers to it.

Not that this will necessarily come as a surprise to you, but it seems pretty obvious that Google is powering Ask's organic search results.

We get so focused on Google that it's easy to forget there are alternatives to Google search.A Granted, the alternativesA are not nearly as popular.A At 66% market share and 11.7 billion searches during the month of February 2012 alone, Google clearly is the leader.A But other search engines are worth understanding - both from the perspective of ... (more)