RESTON, VA, October 11, 2011 – 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 65.3 percent of search queries conducted.
U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in September with 65.3 percent market share (up 0.5 percentage points), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 15.5 percent and Microsoft Sites with 14.7 percent. Ask Network accounted for 3.0 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.5 percent (up 0.2 percentage points).
Comscore Explicit Core Search Share Report*September 2011 vs. August 2011 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University LocationsSource: Comscore qSearch
Core Search Entity
Explicit Core Search Share (%)
Aug-11
Sep-11
Point Change
Total Explicit Core Search
100.0%
N/A
Google Sites
64.8%
65.3%
0.5
Yahoo! Sites
16.3%
15.5%
-0.8
Microsoft Sites
14.7%
0.0
Ask Network
3.0%
AOL, Inc.
1.3%
1.5%
0.2
*“Explicit Core Search” excludes contextually driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.
More than 17.1 billion explicit core searches were conducted in September, with Google Sites ranking first with 11.2 billion (up 1 percent). Yahoo! Sites came in second with 2.6 billion, followed by Microsoft Sites with 2.5 billion. Ask Network delivered 507 million searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 265 million (up 16 percent).
Comscore Explicit Core Search Query ReportSeptember 2011 vs. August 2011 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University LocationsSource: Comscore qSearch
Explicit Core Search Queries (MM)
Percent Change
17,122
17,103
0%
11,090
11,171
1%
2,782
2,644
-5%
2,510
2,516
510
507
-1%
229
265
16%
U.S. Total Core Search
Google Sites accounted for 65.4 percent of total core search queries conducted (up 1 percentage point), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 17.2 percent and Microsoft Sites with 13.4 percent (up 0.1 percentage point). Ask Network comprised 2.6 percent of total search queries, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.4 percent (up 0.2 percentage points).
Comscore Total Core Search Share Report*September 2011 vs. August 2011 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University LocationsSource: Comscore qSearch
Total Core Search Share (%)
Total Core Search
64.4%
65.4%
1.0
18.5%
17.2%
-1.3
13.3%
13.4%
0.1
2.6%
1.2%
1.4%
* “Total Core Search” is based on the five major search engines, includingpartner searches, cross-channel searches and contextual searches. Searchesfor mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on thecore domain of the five search engines are not included in these numbers.
Americans conducted 19.3 billion total core search queries in September. Google Sites ranked first with 12.7 billion searches (up 1 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 3.3 billion and Microsoft Sites with 2.6 billion.
Comscore Total Core Search Query ReportSeptember 2011 vs. August 2011 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University LocationsSource: Comscore qSearch
Total Core Search Queries (MM)
19,482
19,345
12,541
12,659
3,610
3,326
-8%
2,592
2,588
“Powered By” Reporting
As a part of Comscore’s commitment to accurately represent the continued evolution of the search landscape, Comscore is providing insight into the share of organic Core Explicit searches that are powered by Google and Bing.
In September, 67.4 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google (vs. 66.8 percent in August) while 26.7 percent of searches were powered by Bing (vs. 27.1 percent in August).
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