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RESTON, Va., March 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 February with 66.4 percent of search queries conducted.
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U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in February with 66.4 percent market share (up 0.2 percentage points), followed by Microsoft Sites with 15.3 percent (up 0.1 percentage points) and Yahoo! Sites with 13.8 percent. Ask Network accounted for 3.0 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.5 percent.
comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report* | |||
Core Search Entity |
Explicit Core Search Share (%) | ||
Jan-12 |
Feb-12 |
Point Change | |
Total Explicit Core Search |
100.0% |
100.0% |
N/A |
Google Sites |
66.2% |
66.4% |
0.2 |
Microsoft Sites |
15.2% |
15.3% |
0.1 |
Yahoo! Sites |
14.1% |
13.8% |
-0.3 |
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.
17.6 billion explicit core searches were conducted in February, with Google Sites ranking first with 11.7 billion. Microsoft Sites ranked second with 2.7 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.4 billion, Ask Network with 535 million (up 2 percent) and AOL, Inc. with 266 million.
comScore Explicit Core Search Query Report | |||
Core Search Entity |
Explicit Core Search Queries (MM) | ||
Jan-12 |
Feb-12 |
Percent Change | |
Total Explicit Core Search |
17,804 |
17,588 |
-1% |
Google Sites |
11,786 |
11,673 |
-1% |
Microsoft Sites |
2,707 |
2,684 |
-1% |
Yahoo! Sites |
2,506 |
2,430 |
-3% |
Ask Network |
527 |
535 |
2% |
AOL, Inc. |
277 |
266 |
-4% |
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In February, 68.6 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google (versus 68.4 percent in January) while 26.2 percent of searches were powered by Bing (versus 26.5 percent in January).
About comScore
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a global leader in measuring the digital world and preferred source of digital business analytics. For more information, please visit www.comscore.com/companyinfo.
SOURCE comScore, Inc.
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