comScore Releases May Search Engine Rankings

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comScore Releases May Search Engine Rankings

Reston, VA, June 25, 2007--comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines.  In May 2007, Google Sites captured 50.7 percent of the U.S. search market, gaining one full share point from the previous month.  Yahoo! Sites maintained its second place ranking with 26.4 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (10.3 percent), Ask Network (5.0 percent) and Time Warner Network (4.6 percent).

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 Share of Online Searches by Engine

April 2007 – May2007

Total U.S. Home, Work and University Internet Users

Source: comScore qSearch

 

Apr-07

May-07

Pt Chg vs. Previous Month

Total Internet Population

100.0%

100.0%

N/A

Google Sites

49.7%

50.7%

1.0

Yahoo! Sites

26.8%

26.4%

-0.4

Microsoft Sites

10.3%

10.3%

0.0

Ask Network

5.1%

5.0%

-0.1

Time Warner Network

5.0%

4.6%

-0.4

 

•          Americans conducted 7.6 billion searches online in May, up 4 versus April and up 11 percent versus May 2006. 

•          Google Sites led the pack with 3.9 billion search queries performed, followed by Yahoo Sites (2.0 billion), Microsoft Sites (782 million), Ask Network (384 million), and Time Warner Network (348 million).