NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - May 8, 2012) - With the U.S. economy finally showing signs of improvement we have seen an increase in advertising spending. Corporations have continued to spend more and more of their advertising budgets on the Internet, as internet marketing offers notable targeting and data-focused return-on-investment capabilities. Five Star Equities examines the outlook for companies in the Internet Information Providers Industry and provides equity research on Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: [ YHOO ]) and AOL, Inc. (NYSE: [ AOL ]).

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Market share is a stat that gets a lot of publicity in the search engine industry. Google sites are currently the clear cut leader in North America with a 66.4 percent market share, followed by Microsoft sites with 15.3 percent and Yahoo! sites with 13.7 percent. AOL has the smallest market share of only 1.5 percent. Google's market share is at the highest level since November of 2010 according to comScore. In China it is a different story, Google's market share of close to 34 percent plays second fiddle to Chinese giant Baidu who holds a 61 percent market share.

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Yahoo! reported revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs was $1,077 million for the first quarter of 2012, a 1 percent increase from the first quarter of 2011. To protect the investments of Yahoo! and the inventions of its employees, Yahoo! sued Facebook for infringement of ten patents. Yahoo! has invested substantial resources over many years to innovate and earn this intellectual property and the lawsuit is intended to enforce Yahoo!'s rights.

AOL recently launched AOL On, a platform of AOL's complete video offerings and a curated video hub for consumers that offers premium video across 14 content channels including food, business, entertainment, style, tech, travel, health and others, reaching an audience of 57 million US consumers. Recognizing the increasing trend toward multi-screen consumption, all of the videos from AOL can be seen across four screens -- desktop, tablet, mobile devices and connected TV devices.

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