In comScore March 2013 U.S. Search Engine Rankings, Google has 67.1 % of Search Queries Conducted in the US follow by Microsoft search was 16.9 percent and Yahoo! search was 11.8 percent.
comScore monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace, shows that Google continues to dominate the core search market in March with 67.1 percent of search queries conducted in the US.
However, it’s not all bad news for Google’s competitors. Microsoft search was 16.9 percent (up 0.2 percentage points) and Yahoo! search was 11.8 percent (up 0.2 percentage points). Well, at least they didn’t lose market share.
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in March with 67.1 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 16.9 percent (up 0.2 percentage points) and Yahoo! Sites with 11.8 percent (up 0.2 percentage points). Ask Network accounted for 2.7 percent of explicit core searches (up 0.1 percentage point), followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.6 percent.
comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report* March 2013 vs. February 2013 Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations Source: comScore qSearch |
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Core Search Entity | Explicit Core Search Share (%) | ||
Feb-13 | Mar-13 | Point Change | |
Total Explicit Core Search | 100.0% | 100.0% | N/A |
Google Sites | 67.5% | 67.1% | -0.4 |
Microsoft Sites | 16.7% | 16.9% | 0.2 |
Yahoo! Sites | 11.6% | 11.8% | 0.2 |
Ask Network | 2.6% | 2.7% | 0.1 |
AOL, Inc. | 1.7% | 1.6% | -0.1 |
According to the report, “20.4 billion explicit core searches were conducted in March (up 11 percent), with Google Sites ranking first with 13.7 billion (up 11 percent). Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.4 billion searches (up 13 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.4 billion (up 14 percent), Ask Network with 540 million (up 14 percent) and AOL, Inc. with 321 million (up 5 percent).”
comScore Explicit Core Search Query Report March 2013 vs. February 2013 Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations Source: comScore qSearch |
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Core Search Entity | Explicit Core Search Queries (MM) | ||
Feb-13 | Mar-13 | Percent Change | |
Total Explicit Core Search | 18,266 | 20,360 | 11% |
Google Sites | 12,327 | 13,658 | 11% |
Microsoft Sites | 3,048 | 3,431 | 13% |
Yahoo! Sites | 2,111 | 2,410 | 14% |
Ask Network | 475 | 540 | 14% |
AOL, Inc. | 305 | 321 | 5% |
“In March, 69.2 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google, while 26.1 percent of searches were powered by Bing (up 0.2 percentage points),”the report states.
Source: comScore