Yahoo recently announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire most of the assets of Tensa Kft., more commonly known as IndexTools. The deal includes IndexTools' Web analytics business and technology, which gives Yahoo an entry into that market. Rivals Google and Microsoft Corp. currently provide analytics tools and products.

Yahoo said the first group of customers to benefit from the analytics tools would be more than 150,000 small and midsize businesses currently marketing online with Yahoo. The transaction is expected to be completed this quarter.

Google has hit an all-time high in market share, commanding 67.25% of all U.S. searches in March, according to Hitwise, an online competitive intelligence company. That was up from 64.13% in March 2007.

Yahoo Search, MSN Search and Ask.com last month had shares of 20.29%, 5.25% and 4.09%, respectively.

Hitwise’s findings were based on data collected from a sample of 10 million online users.

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