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Google Sites led the explicit core search U.S. market in September with 66.9 percent of search queries conducted, according to comScore, Inc.
Google Sites were followed by Microsoft Sites with 18 percent (up 0.1
percentage points) and Yahoo! Sites with 11.3 percent. Ask Network
accounted for 2.5 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL,
Inc. with 1.3 percent.
comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report
September 2013 vs. August 2013
Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations
Source: comScore qSearch |
Core Search Entity |
Explicit Core Search Share (%) |
Aug-13 |
Sep-13 |
Point Change |
Total Explicit Core Search |
100.0% |
100.0% |
N/A |
Google Sites |
66.9% |
66.9% |
0.0 |
Microsoft Sites |
17.9% |
18.0% |
0.1 |
Yahoo! Sites |
11.4% |
11.3% |
-0.1 |
Ask Network |
2.6% |
2.5% |
-0.1 |
AOL, Inc. |
1.3% |
1.3% |
0.0 |
Comscore said that 18.7
billion explicit core searches were conducted in September, with Google
Sites ranking first with 12.5 billion. Microsoft Sites ranked second
with 3.4 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.1 billion,
Ask Network with 474 million and AOL, Inc. with 249 million (up 3
percent).
comScore Explicit Core Search Query Report
September 2013 vs. August 2013
Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations
Source: comScore qSearch |
Core Search Entity |
Explicit Core Search Queries (MM) |
Aug-13 |
Sep-13 |
Percent Change |
Total Explicit Core Search |
19,082 |
18,650 |
-2% |
Google Sites |
12,771 |
12,477 |
-2% |
Microsoft Sites |
3,407 |
3,350 |
-2% |
Yahoo! Sites |
2,175 |
2,101 |
-3% |
Ask Network |
489 |
474 |
-3% |
AOL, Inc. |
241 |
249 |
3% |
In September, 68.4 percent of
searches carried organic search results from Google, while 27.2 percent
of searches were powered by Bing.
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