May 15, 2015

Comscore Releases April 2015 U.S. Desktop Search Engine Rankings

RESTON, VA, May 15, 2015 – Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a global leader in digital media analytics, today released its monthly Comscore qSearch™ analysis of the U.S. desktop search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in April with 64.2 percent of search queries conducted.

U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in April with 64.2 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 20.2 percent (up 0.1 percentage points) and Yahoo Sites with 12.7 percent. Ask Network accounted for 1.8 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.1 percent.

Comscore Explicit Core Search Share Report* (Desktop Only)
April 2015 vs. March 2015
Total U.S. – Desktop Home & Work Locations
Source: Comscore qSearch

Core Search Entity

Explicit Core Search Share (%)

Mar-15

Apr-15

Point Change

Total Explicit Core Search

100.0%

100.0%

N/A

Google Sites

64.4%

64.2%

-0.2

Microsoft Sites

20.1%

20.2%

0.1

Yahoo Sites

12.7%

12.7%

0.0

Ask Network

1.8%

1.8%

0.0

AOL, Inc.

1.1%

1.1%

0.0

*“Explicit Core Search” excludes contextually driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.

18.4 billion explicit core searches were conducted in April, with Google Sites ranking first with 11.8 billion. Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.7 billion searches, followed by Yahoo Sites with 2.3 billion, Ask Network with 336 million (up 1 percent) and AOL, Inc. with 197 million.

Comscore Explicit Core Search Query Report (Desktop Only)
April 2015 vs. March 2015
Total U.S. – Desktop Home & Work Locations
Source: Comscore qSearch

Core Search Entity

Explicit Core Search Queries (MM)

Mar-15

Apr-15

Percent Change

Total Explicit Core Search

18,852

18,358

-3%

Google Sites

12,139

11,783

-3%

Microsoft Sites

3,781

3,702

-2%

Yahoo Sites

2,396

2,340

-2%

Ask Network

332

336

1%

AOL, Inc.

203

197

-3%

“Powered By” Reporting
In April, 65.2 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google, while 31.1 percent of searches were powered by Bing (up 0.1 percentage points).

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About Comscore
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