RESTON, VA, September 11, 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 August with 66.9 percent of search queries conducted.
U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in August with 66.9 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 17.9 percent and Yahoo! Sites with 11.4 percent (up 0.1 percentage points). Ask Network accounted for 2.6 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.3 percent (up 0.1 percentage points).
Comscore Explicit Core Search Share Report* August 2013 vs. July 2013 Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations Source: Comscore qSearch
Core Search Entity
Explicit Core Search Share (%)
Jul-13
Aug-13
Point Change
Total Explicit Core Search
100.0%
N/A
Google Sites
67.0%
66.9%
-0.1
Microsoft Sites
17.9%
0.0
Yahoo! Sites
11.3%
11.4%
0.1
Ask Network
2.7%
2.6%
AOL, Inc.
1.2%
1.3%
*“Explicit Core Search” excludes contextually driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.
19.1 billion explicit core searches were conducted in August, 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 489 million and AOL, Inc. with 241 million (up 1 percent).
Comscore Explicit Core Search Query Report August 2013 vs. July 2013 Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations Source: Comscore qSearch
Explicit Core Search Queries (MM)
Percent Change
19,376
19,082
-2%
12,976
12,771
3,460
3,407
2,187
2,175
-1%
516
489
-5%
239
241
1%
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In August, 68.4 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google, while 27.3 percent of searches were powered by Bing (up 0.2 percentage points).
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