RESTON, VA, August 14, 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 July with 67.0 percent of search queries conducted.
U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in July with 67 percent market share (up 0.3 percentage points), followed by Microsoft Sites with 17.9 percent and Yahoo! Sites with 11.3 percent. Ask Network accounted for 2.7 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.2 percent.
Comscore Explicit Core Search Share Report*July 2013 vs. June 2013 Total U.S. – Home & Work LocationsSource: Comscore qSearch
Core Search Entity
Explicit Core Search Share (%)
Jun-13
Jul-13
Point Change
Total Explicit Core Search
100.0%
N/A
Google Sites
66.7%
67.0%
0.3
Microsoft Sites
17.9%
0.0
Yahoo! Sites
11.4%
11.3%
-0.1
Ask Network
2.7%
AOL, Inc.
1.3%
1.2%
*“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 July, with Google Sites ranking first with nearly 13 billion (up 1 percent). Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.5 billion searches (up 1 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.2 billion, Ask Network with 516 million and AOL, Inc. with 239 million.
Comscore Explicit Core Search Query ReportJuly 2013 vs. June 2013 Total U.S. – Home & Work LocationsSource: Comscore qSearch
Explicit Core Search Queries (MM)
Percent Change
19,232
19,376
1%
12,823
12,976
3,434
3,460
2,197
2,187
0%
524
516
-2%
253
239
-5%
Note: With July 2013 U.S. qSearch data, Comscore has enhanced its weighting methodology to leverage insights gained from the Comscore Census Network, through a technique called Census Informed Targets (CIT). CIT replaces the Comscore Calibration Panel as the source for behavioral weighting targets (specifically, targets for intensity of Internet usage). This change had a negligible month-over-month impact on core search query estimates for all properties except AOL.
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In July, 68.6 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google, while 27.1 percent of searches were powered by Bing (up 0.3 percentage points).
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