Reston, VA, November 21, 2006--comScore Networks today released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines.
In October 2006, Google Sites captured 45.4 percent of the U.S. search market, gaining 0.3 share points from the previous month.
Yahoo! Sites maintained its second place ranking with 28.2 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (11.7 percent), Ask Network (5.8 percent) and Time Warner Network (5.4 percent).
• Americans conducted 6.8 billion searches online in October, up 3 percent versus September. Annual growth rates in search query volume remained strong with a 33-percent increase versus year ago.
• Google Sites led the pack with 3.1 billion search queries performed in October, followed by Yahoo Sites (1.9 billion), MSN-Microsoft (796 million), Ask Network (392 million), and Time Warner Network (366 million).
