For the month of February 2008, Google remained the most popular search engine in the world with 62.8% market share. In January 2008, Google's share of the global search engine market was 63.1 percent.The overall number of searches performed by Google was also down in the month of February, Google had 5.86 billion searches in February compared to 6.14 billion in January. Please remember that even with it being a leap year, February was still the shortest month of the year.