Ha, take THAT, Google! Alta Vista is out to getcha! Woo hoo, Lycos is on your tail. Every dog has its day — so watch out Mr. HighNmighty.

ComScore released its October search-engine market share figures for the U.S. last night. Overall search volume grew 20.1 percent year-over-year to 12.6 billion queries, a decline in growth from the 25.5 percent pace we saw in September, but still quite healthy. Correspondingly, the annual growth in Google’s U.S. search volume slowed from 38.6 percent in September to 29.6 percent in October. Google still managed to eke out an overall market share gain of 0.2 point to 63.1 percent.

- from Techcrunch