NetApplications announced the latest results on active search engine traffic statistics for April 2005. NetApplications found that Google lead the other search portals with 43.06 percent in search engine visitor referrals.

"The search engine wars are definitely heating up as Google continues its aggressive campaign to increase market share and Yahoo! and MSN launch new initiatives designed to attract new users and advertisers," says Dan Shapero, chief operating officer, NetApplications.

Yahoo! garnered 15.35 percent and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN 10.86 percent for the month of April 2005.

"Google is the only company to increase its user-base over the last 60 days, at the direct expense of its competition, and investors have taken notice," add Shapero.