Comscore Releases March 2014 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

RESTON, VA, April 15, 2014 – 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 March with 67.5 percent of search queries conducted.

U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in March with 67.5 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 18.6 percent (up 0.2 percentage points) and Yahoo Sites with 10.1 percent. Ask Network accounted for 2.5 percent of explicit core searches (up 0.1 percentage points), followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.3 percent.

Comscore Explicit Core Search Share Report*
March 2014 vs. February 2014
Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations
Source: Comscore qSearch

Core Search Entity

Explicit Core Search Share (%)

Feb-14

Mar-14

Point Change

Total Explicit Core Search

100.0%

100.0%

N/A

Google Sites

67.5%

67.5%

0.0

Microsoft Sites

18.4%

18.6%

0.2

Yahoo Sites

10.3%

10.1%

-0.2

Ask Network

2.4%

2.5%

0.1

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.

19.4 billion explicit core searches were conducted in March, with Google Sites ranking first with 13.1 billion (up 9 percent). Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.6 billion searches (up 10 percent), followed by Yahoo Sites with 2 billion (up 8 percent), Ask Network with 478 million (up 11 percent) and AOL, Inc. with 259 million (up 10 percent).

Comscore Explicit Core Search Query Report
March 2014 vs. February 2014
Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations
Source: Comscore qSearch

Core Search Entity

Explicit Core Search Queries (MM)

Feb-14

Mar-14

Percent Change

Total Explicit Core Search

17,687

19,358

9%

Google Sites

11,941

13,067

9%

Microsoft Sites

3,257

3,594

10%

Yahoo Sites

1,822

1,960

8%

Ask Network

431

478

11%

AOL, Inc.

235

259

10%

“Powered By” Reporting
In March, 68.9 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google, while 27.1 percent of searches were powered by Bing (up 0.1 percentage points).

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