Search Engine Market Share
Below are the latest ComScore results identifying the most used search engines, including search share and query volumes. Follow the link below to see the original report.
ComScore Search Engine Report 2009
comScore Releases February 2009 U.S.Search Engine Rankings
RESTON, VA, March 13, 2009 – comScore,Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), aleader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScoreqSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Americans conducted 13.1 billioncore searches in February 2009, down 3 percent versus January – a decline thatis primarily the result of the shortened month.
February 2009 U.S. Core Search Rankings
Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in February with63.3 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.6 percent),Microsoft Sites (8.2 percent), Ask Network (4.1 percent) and AOL LLC (3.9 percent).
comScore Core Search Report* |
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Core Search Entity |
Share of Searches (%) |
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Jan-09 |
Feb-09 |
Point Change Feb-09 vs. Jan-09 |
|
Total Core Search |
100.0 |
100.0 |
N/A |
Google Sites |
63.0 |
63.3 |
0.3 |
Yahoo! Sites |
21.0 |
20.6 |
-0.4 |
Microsoft Sites |
8.5 |
8.2 |
-0.3 |
Ask Network |
3.7 |
4.1 |
0.4 |
AOL LLC |
3.9 |
3.9 |
0.0 |
* Based on the five major searchengines including partner searches and cross-channel searches. Searches formapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on thecore domain of the five search engines are not included in the core searchnumbers.
Americansconducted 13.1 billion searches at the core search engines, down 3 percent fromJanuary. Google Sites handled 8.3 billion core searches, followed by Yahoo!Sites with 2.7 billion and Microsoft Sites with 1.1 billion.
comScore Core Search Report* |
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Core Search Entity |
Search Queries (MM) |
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Jan-09 |
Feb-09 |
Percent Change Feb-09 vs. Jan-09 |
|
Total Core Search |
13,496 |
13,104 |
-3% |
Google Sites |
8,497 |
8,293 |
-2% |
Yahoo! Sites |
2,836 |
2,696 |
-5% |
Microsoft Sites |
1,146 |
1,073 |
-6% |
Ask Network |
497 |
536 |
8% |
AOL LLC |
520 |
507 |
-3% |
* Based on the five major searchengines including partner searches and cross-channel searches. Searches formapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on thecore domain of the five search engines are not included in the core searchnumbers.
February 2009 U.S.Expanded Search Rankings
In the comScore February 2009 analysis of the topproperties where search activity is observed, Google Sites led with 11.3 billionsearches, down 4 percent versus January. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 2.8 billionsearches, followed by Microsoft Sites (1.1 billion) and AOL LLC (761 million).
comScore Expanded Search Query Report |
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Expanded Search Entity |
Search Queries (MM) |
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Jan-09 |
Feb-09 |
Percent Change Feb-09 vs. Jan-09 |
|
Total Expanded Search |
19,979 |
19,176 |
-4% |
Google Sites |
11,714 |
11,250 |
-4% |
|
8,731 |
8,541 |
-2% |
YouTube/All Other |
2,983 |
2,709 |
-9% |
Yahoo! Sites |
2,979 |
2,828 |
-5% |
Yahoo! |
2,952 |
2,804 |
-5% |
All Other |
27 |
23 |
-13% |
Microsoft Sites |
1,188 |
1,109 |
-7% |
MSN-Windows Live |
1,084 |
1,015 |
-6% |
“Microsoft/All Other |
104 |
94 |
-10% |
AOL LLC |
781 |
761 |
-3% |
AOL Search Network |
452 |
439 |
-3% |
MapQuest/All Other |
330 |
322 |
-2% |
Ask Network |
645 |
678 |
5% |
Ask.com |
317 |
384 |
21% |
MyWebSearch.com/ All Other |
328 |
294 |
-10% |
eBay |
541 |
513 |
-5% |
Craigslist.org |
497 |
511 |
3% |
Fox Interactive Media |
558 |
487 |
-13% |
MySpace |
550 |
479 |
-13% |
All Other |
8 |
7 |
-10% |
Facebook.com |
195 |
206 |
6% |
Amazon Sites |
196 |
170 |
-13% |
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