Comscore Releases June 2013 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

RESTON, VA, July 12, 2013 – 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 June with 66.7 percent of search queries conducted.

U.S. Explicit Core Search

Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in June with 66.7 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 17.9 percent (up 0.5 percentage points) and Yahoo! Sites with 11.4 percent. Ask Network accounted for 2.7 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.3 percent.

Comscore Explicit Core Search Share Report*
June 2013 vs. May 2013
Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations
Source: Comscore qSearch

Core Search Entity

Explicit Core Search Share (%)

May-13

Jun-13

Point Change

Total Explicit Core Search

100.0%

100.0%

N/A

Google Sites

66.7%

66.7%

0.0

Microsoft Sites

17.4%

17.9%

0.5

Yahoo! Sites

11.9%

11.4%

-0.5

Ask Network

2.7%

2.7%

0.0

AOL, Inc.

1.3%

1.3%

0.0

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

19.2 billion explicit core searches were conducted in June, with Google Sites ranking first with 12.8 billion. Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.4 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.2 billion, Ask Network with 524 million and AOL, Inc. with 253 million.

Comscore Explicit Core Search Query Report
June 2013 vs. May 2013
Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations
Source: Comscore qSearch

Core Search Entity

Explicit Core Search Queries (MM)

May-13

Jun-13

Percent Change

Total Explicit Core Search

20,032

19,232

-4%

Google Sites

13,353

12,823

-4%

Microsoft Sites

3,490

3,434

-2%

Yahoo! Sites

2,375

2,197

-7%

Ask Network

547

524

-4%

AOL, Inc.

266

253

-5%

“Powered By” Reporting

In June, 68.6 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google, while 26.8 percent of searches were powered by Bing (up 0.1 percentage points).

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