RESTON, Va., Oct. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in September with 65.3 percent of search queries conducted.
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U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in September with 65.3 percent market share (up 0.5 percentage points), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 15.5 percent and Microsoft Sites with 14.7 percent. Ask Network accounted for 3.0 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.5 percent (up 0.2 percentage points).
comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report* |
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Core Search Entity |
Explicit Core Search Share (%) |
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Aug-11 |
Sep-11 |
Point Change |
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Total Explicit Core Search |
100.0% |
100.0% |
N/A |
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Google Sites |
64.8% |
65.3% |
0.5 |
|
Yahoo! Sites |
16.3% |
15.5% |
-0.8 |
|
Microsoft Sites |
14.7% |
14.7% |
0.0 |
|
Ask Network |
3.0% |
3.0% |
0.0 |
|
AOL, Inc. |
1.3% |
1.5% |
0.2 |
|
*"Explicit Core Search" excludes contextually driven searches that do not |
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More than 17.1 billion explicit core searches were conducted in September, with Google Sites ranking first with 11.2 billion (up 1 percent). Yahoo! Sites came in second with 2.6 billion, followed by Microsoft Sites with 2.5 billion. Ask Network delivered 507 million searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 265 million (up 16 percent).
comScore Explicit Core Search Query Report |
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Core Search Entity |
Explicit Core Search Queries (MM) |
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Aug-11 |
Sep-11 |
Percent Change |
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Total Explicit Core Search |
17,122 |
17,103 |
0% |
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Google Sites |
11,090 |
11,171 |
1% |
|
Yahoo! Sites |
2,782 |
2,644 |
-5% |
|
Microsoft Sites |
2,510 |
2,516 |
0% |
|
Ask Network |
510 |
507 |
-1% |
|
AOL, Inc. |
229 |
265 |
16% |
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U.S. Total Core Search
Google Sites accounted for 65.4 percent of total core search queries conducted (up 1 percentage point), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 17.2 percent and Microsoft Sites with 13.4 percent (up 0.1 percentage point). Ask Network comprised 2.6 percent of total search queries, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.4 percent (up 0.2 percentage points).
comScore Total Core Search Share Report* September 2011 vs. August 2011 |
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Core Search Entity |
Total Core Search Share (%) |
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Aug-11 |
Sep-11 |
Point Change |
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Total Core Search |
100.0% |
100.0% |
N/A |
|
Google Sites |
64.4% |
65.4% |
1.0 |
|
Yahoo! Sites |
18.5% |
17.2% |
-1.3 |
|
Microsoft Sites |
13.3% |
13.4% |
0.1 |
|
Ask Network |
2.6% |
2.6% |
0.0 |
|
AOL, Inc. |
1.2% |
1.4% |
0.2 |
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* "Total Core Search" is based on the five major search engines, including |
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Americans conducted 19.3 billion total core search queries in September. Google Sites ranked first with 12.7 billion searches (up 1 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 3.3 billion and Microsoft Sites with 2.6 billion.
comScore Total Core Search Query Report |
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Core Search Entity |
Total Core Search Queries (MM) |
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Aug-11 |
Sep-11 |
Percent Change |
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Total Core Search |
19,482 |
19,345 |
-1% |
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Google Sites |
12,541 |
12,659 |
1% |
|
Yahoo! Sites |
3,610 |
3,326 |
-8% |
|
Microsoft Sites |
2,592 |
2,588 |
0% |
|
Ask Network |
510 |
507 |
-1% |
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AOL, Inc. |
229 |
265 |
16% |
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"Powered By" Reporting
As a part of comScore's commitment to accurately represent the continued evolution of the search landscape, comScore is providing insight into the share of organic Core Explicit searches that are powered by Google and Bing.
In September, 67.4 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google (vs. 66.8 percent in August) while 26.7 percent of searches were powered by Bing (vs. 27.1 percent in August).
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SOURCE comScore, Inc.
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