RESTON, VA, July 13, 2011 – comScore, Inc., 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 65.5 percent of search queries conducted.
U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in June with 65.5 percent market share, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 15.9 percent and Microsoft Sites with 14.4 percent (up 0.3 percentage points). Ask Network accounted for 2.9 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.4 percent.
| comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report* June 2011 vs. May 2011 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch |
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| Core Search Entity | Explicit Core Search Share (%) | ||
| May-11 | Jun-11 | Point Change | |
| Total Explicit Core Search | 100.0% | 100.0% | N/A |
| Google Sites | 65.5% | 65.5% | 0.0 |
| Yahoo! Sites | 15.9% | 15.9% | 0.0 |
| Microsoft Sites | 14.1% | 14.4% | 0.3 |
| Ask Network | 2.9% | 2.9% | 0.0 |
| AOL, Inc. | 1.5% | 1.4% | -0.1 |
*“Explicit Core Search” excludes contextually driven searches that do not
reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.
More than 16.7 billion explicit core searches were conducted in June. Google Sites ranked first with 10.9 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.7 billion and Microsoft Sites with 2.4 billion. Ask Network delivered 478 million searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 239 million.
| comScore Explicit Core Search Query Report June 2011 vs. May 2011 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch |
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| Core Search Entity | Explicit Core Search Queries (MM) | ||
| May-11 | Jun-11 | Percent Change | |
| Total Explicit Core Search | 17,024 | 16,720 | -2% |
| Google Sites | 11,155 | 10,948 | -2% |
| Yahoo! Sites | 2,711 | 2,650 | -2% |
| Microsoft Sites | 2,402 | 2,405 | 0% |
| Ask Network | 502 | 478 | -5% |
| AOL, Inc. | 254 | 239 | -6% |
U.S. Total Core Search
Google Sites accounted for 64.5 percent of total core search queries conducted (up 1.2 percentage points), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 17.5 percent and Microsoft Sites with 14.1 percent (up 1.0 percentage points). Ask Network comprised 2.6 percent of total search queries, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.3 percent.
| comScore Total Core Search Share Report* June 2011 vs. May 2011 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch |
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| Core Search Entity | Total Core Search Share (%) | ||
| May-11 | Jun-11 | Point Change | |
| Total Core Search | 100.0% | 100.0% | N/A |
| Google Sites | 63.3% | 64.5% | 1.2 |
| Yahoo! Sites | 19.6% | 17.5% | -2.1 |
| Microsoft Sites | 13.1% | 14.1% | 1.0 |
| Ask Network | 2.6% | 2.6% | 0.0 |
| AOL, Inc. | 1.3% | 1.3% | 0.0 |
* “Total Core Search” is based on the five major search engines, including
partner searches, cross-channel searches and contextual searches. Searches
for mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on the
core domain of the five search engines are not included in these numbers.
Americans conducted more than 18.7 billion total core search queries in June (down 3 percent). Google Sites ranked first with 12.1 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 3.3 billion and Microsoft Sites with 2.6 billion (up 5 percent).
| comScore Total Core Search Query Report June 2011 vs. May 2011 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch |
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| Core Search Entity | Total Core Search Queries (MM) | ||
| May-11 | Jun-11 | Percent Change | |
| Total Core Search | 19,269 | 18,721 | -3% |
| Google Sites | 12,204 | 12,079 | -1% |
| Yahoo! Sites | 3,786 | 3,277 | -13% |
| Microsoft Sites | 2,522 | 2,647 | 5% |
| Ask Network | 502 | 478 | -5% |
| AOL, Inc. | 254 | 239 | -6% |
“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 June, 67.6 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google (vs. 67.8 percent in May) while 26.6 percent of searches were powered by Bing (vs. 26.5 percent in May).
*Source: comScore