Comscore came out with its monthly search engine rankings and Google (GOOG) cemented it place as a huge front-runner again.

From December, the big search company moved up in share .2% to 47.5% of total searches in the US.

Yahoo! (YHOO) was second at 28.1% down .4%.

Microsoft (MSFT) Live search does not seem to be paying much in dividends. Its share rose .1% to 10.6%.

Ask.com (IACI) dropped .2% to 5.2%.

AOL (TWX) rose .1% to 5.0%

Google had 3.3 billion search queries performed in January.

Overall searches rose 26% since January of last year.

Douglas A. McIntyre