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RESTON, VA, January 11, 2012 – 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 December with 65.9 percent of search queries conducted.
U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in December with 65.9 percent market share (up 0.5 percentage points), followed by Microsoft Sites with 15.1 percent (up 0.1 percentage points) and Yahoo! Sites with 14.5 percent. Ask Network accounted for 2.9 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.6 percent.
Comscore Explicit Core Search Share Report*December 2011 vs. November 2011 Total U.S. – Home & Work LocationsSource: Comscore qSearch
Core Search Entity
Explicit Core Search Share (%)
Nov-11
Dec-11
Point Change
Total Explicit Core Search
100.0%
N/A
Google Sites
65.4%
65.9%
0.5
Microsoft Sites
15.0%
15.1%
0.1
Yahoo! Sites
14.5%
-0.6
Ask Network
2.9%
0.0
AOL, Inc.
1.6%
*“Explicit Core Search” excludes contextually driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.
More than 18.2 billion explicit core searches were conducted in December (up 2 percent). Google Sites ranked first with 12 billion (up 3 percent), followed by Microsoft Sites with 2.7 billion (up 2 percent) and Yahoo! Sites with 2.6 billion. Ask Network delivered 531 million searches (up 3 percent), while AOL, Inc. rounded out the top five with 287 million.
Comscore Explicit Core Search Query ReportDecember 2011 vs. November 2011 Total U.S. – Home & Work LocationsSource: Comscore qSearch
Explicit Core Search Queries (MM)
Percent Change
17,887
18,235
2%
11,704
12,019
3%
2,684
2,750
2,696
2,647
-2%
516
531
286
287
0%
U.S. Total Core Search
Google Sites accounted for 66.1 percent of total core search queries conducted (up 0.4 percentage points), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 16.2 percent and Microsoft Sites with 13.8 percent. Ask Network comprised 2.6 percent of total search queries, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.4 percent.
Comscore Total Core Search Share Report*December 2011 vs. November 2011 Total U.S. – Home & Work LocationsSource: Comscore qSearch
Total Core Search Share (%)
Total Core Search
65.7%
66.1%
0.4
16.3%
16.2%
-0.1
14.0%
13.8%
-0.2
2.6%
1.4%
* “Total Core Search” is based on the five major search engines, includingpartner searches, cross-channel searches and contextual searches. Searchesfor mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on thecore domain of the five search engines are not included in these numbers.
Americans conducted 20.5 billion total core search queries in December (up 3 percent). Google Sites ranked first with 13.6 billion searches (up 4 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 3.3 billion (up 2 percent) and Microsoft Sites with 2.8 billion (up 2 percent).
Comscore Total Core Search Query ReportDecember 2011 vs. November 2011 Total U.S. – Home & Work LocationsSource: Comscore qSearch
Total Core Search Queries (MM)
19,906
20,525
13,074
13,560
4%
3,245
3,318
2,785
2,829
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In December, 68.1 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google (vs. 67.6 percent in November) while 26.5 percent of searches were powered by Bing (vs. 26.7 percent in November).
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