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%
N/A
Google Sites
66.7%
0.0
Microsoft Sites
17.4%
17.9%
0.5
Yahoo! Sites
11.9%
11.4%
-0.5
Ask Network
2.7%
AOL, Inc.
1.3%
*“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
Explicit Core Search Queries (MM)
Percent Change
20,032
19,232
-4%
13,353
12,823
3,490
3,434
-2%
2,375
2,197
-7%
547
524
266
253
-5%
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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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