Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) was up +6.86 (+1.76%) to close at 396.86 for Monday the 18th. The market capitalization for Google at the end of the day was approximately $125.38B.

In news relating to Google, comScore says in a statement released today that Google sites led the United States search market in April. In April Google sites had approximately 64.2% of searches conducted within the United States market. This is an increase of 0.5% from the March 2009 figure of 63.7%. Yahoo! sites declined -0.1% to 20.4%. Microsoft sites also declined -0.1% for the month of April compared to March to 8.2%. Ask.com and AOL.com hovered in the three percent mark.