RESTON, VA, October 16, 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 September with 66.9 percent of search queries conducted.
U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in September with 66.9 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 18 percent (up 0.1 percentage points) and Yahoo! Sites with 11.3 percent. Ask Network accounted for 2.5 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.3 percent.
Comscore Explicit Core Search Share Report* September 2013 vs. August 2013 Total U.S. – Home & Work LocationsSource: Comscore qSearch
Core Search Entity
Explicit Core Search Share (%)
Aug-13
Sep-13
Point Change
Total Explicit Core Search
100.0%
N/A
Google Sites
66.9%
0.0
Microsoft Sites
17.9%
18.0%
0.1
Yahoo! Sites
11.4%
11.3%
-0.1
Ask Network
2.6%
2.5%
AOL, Inc.
1.3%
*“Explicit Core Search” excludes contextually driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.
18.7 billion explicit core searches were conducted in September, with Google Sites ranking first with 12.5 billion. Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.4 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.1 billion, Ask Network with 474 million and AOL, Inc. with 249 million (up 3 percent).
Comscore Explicit Core Search Query ReportSeptember 2013 vs. August 2013 Total U.S. – Home & Work LocationsSource: Comscore qSearch
Explicit Core Search Queries (MM)
Percent Change
19,082
18,650
-2%
12,771
12,477
3,407
3,350
2,175
2,101
-3%
489
474
241
249
3%
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In September, 68.4 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google, while 27.2 percent of searches were powered by Bing.
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