RESTON, VA, January 20, 2016 – Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a global media measurement and analytics company, today released its monthly Comscore qSearch™ analysis of the U.S. desktop search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in December with 63.8 percent of search queries conducted.
U.S. Explicit Core SearchGoogle Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in December with 63.8 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 21.1 percent (up 0.2 percentage points) and Yahoo Sites with 12.4 percent. Ask Network accounted for 1.6 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1 percent.
Comscore Explicit Core Search Share Report* (Desktop Only)December 2015 vs. November 2015Total U.S. – Desktop Home & Work LocationsSource: Comscore qSearch
Core Search Entity
Explicit Core Search Share (%)
Nov-15
Dec-15
Point Change
Total Explicit Core Search
100.0%
N/A
Google Sites
63.9%
63.8%
-0.1
Microsoft Sites
20.9%
21.1%
0.2
Yahoo Sites
12.5%
12.4%
Ask Network
1.7%
1.6%
AOL, Inc.
1.0%
0.0
*“Explicit Core Search” excludes contextually driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.
17.4 billion explicit core searches were conducted in December, with Google Sites ranking first with 11.1 billion. Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.7 billion searches (up 1 percent), followed by Yahoo Sites with 2.2 billion, Ask Network with 279 million and AOL, Inc. with 178 million.
Comscore Explicit Core Search Query Report (Desktop Only)December 2015 vs. November 2015Total U.S. – Desktop Home & Work LocationsSource: Comscore qSearch
Explicit Core Search Queries (MM)
Percent Change
17,301
17,378
0%
11,053
11,095
3,624
3,667
1%
2,155
2,159
291
279
-4%
179
178
-1%
“Powered By” ReportingIn December, 64.8 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google, while 31.4 percent of searches were powered by Bing (up 0.1 percentage points).
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