RESTON, VA, June 13, 2012 – 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 May with 66.7 percent of search queries conducted.
U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in May with 66.7 percent market share (up 0.2 percentage points), followed by Microsoft Sites with 15.4 percent and Yahoo! Sites with 13.4 percent. Ask Network accounted for 3 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.5 percent.
| comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report* May 2012 vs. April 2012 Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations Source: comScore qSearch |
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| Core Search Entity | Explicit Core Search Share (%) | ||
| Apr-12 | May-12 | Point Change | |
| Total Explicit Core Search | 100.0% | 100.0% | N/A |
| Google Sites | 66.5% | 66.7% | 0.2 |
| Microsoft Sites | 15.4% | 15.4% | 0.0 |
| Yahoo! Sites | 13.5% | 13.4% | -0.1 |
| Ask Network | 3.0% | 3.0% | 0.0 |
| AOL, Inc. | 1.6% | 1.5% | -0.1 |
*“Explicit Core Search” excludes contextually driven searches that do not
reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.
17.5 billion explicit core searches were conducted in May (up 2 percent), with Google Sites ranking first with 11.7 billion (up 3 percent). Microsoft Sites ranked second with 2.7 billion searches (up 2 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.3 billion (up 1 percent), Ask Network with 521 million (up 2 percent) and AOL, Inc. with 268 million.
| comScore Explicit Core Search Query Report May 2012 vs. April 2012 Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations Source: comScore qSearch |
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| Core Search Entity | Explicit Core Search Queries (MM) | ||
| Apr-12 | May-12 | Percent Change | |
| Total Explicit Core Search | 17,106 | 17,532 | 2% |
| Google Sites | 11,374 | 11,699 | 3% |
| Microsoft Sites | 2,638 | 2,701 | 2% |
| Yahoo! Sites | 2,311 | 2,342 | 1% |
| Ask Network | 511 | 521 | 2% |
| AOL, Inc. | 271 | 268 | -1% |
“Powered By” Reporting
In May, 68.9 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google (up 0.2 percentage points versus April), while 25.6 percent of searches were powered by Bing.
*Source: comScore