Yahoo! Sites and Verizon SuperPages Lead in Share of U.S. Internet Yellow Pages Searches

Internet Yellow Pages Searches Up 23 Percent in July versus Year Ago, According to Comscore Networks

Reston, VA, October 9, 2006 – Comscore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today released the results of an analysis which studies the growth of Internet Yellow Pages (IYP) searches. The study is the second in a two-part series that analyzes the growing consumer trend of researching local information online. The first study analyzed all local search behavior, while this analysis focuses on Internet Yellow Pages searches that return business directory listings. These searches occur on the Local sections of major search sites (e.g. Yahoo! Local), or on business directory listing sites (e.g. Verizon SuperPages).

This analysis revealed that 68 million U.S. Internet users performed an IYP search online in July. This represents a 46 percent increase versus year ago. When analyzing the total share of IYP searches, which by their nature have local intent, Comscore’s data reveals that Yahoo! Sites and Verizon SuperPages garnered the largest share, with 23.9 percent and 20.1 percent, respectively. Google Sites ranked third in IYP searches, capturing 12.5 percent, followed by Yellowpages.com with 12.0 percent.

Share of Total Internet Yellow Pages Searches by Site (Top 8)
July 2006
Total U.S. Home, Work and University Internet Users
Source: Comscore IYP Report

Total Yellow Pages Searches

Total Internet

100.0%

Yahoo! Sites

23.9%

Verizon SuperPages

20.1%

Google Sites

12.5%

Yellowpages.com

12.0%

Time Warner Network

7.7%

Local.com

5.9%

InfoSpace Network

5.1%

Dexonline.com

4.1%

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