U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in October with 66.3 percent market share, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 16.5 percent and Microsoft sites with 11.5 percent. Ask Network captured 3.6 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL LLC Network with 2.1 percent.
More than 16.6 billion explicit core searches were conducted in October. Google Sites ranked first with 11.0 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites in second with 2.7 billion and Microsoft Sites in third with 1.9 billion. Ask Network accounted for 598 million explicit core searches followed by AOL LLC Network with 346 million.
U.S. Total Core Search
Google Sites accounted for 64.3 percent of total core search queries conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 18.5 percent and Microsoft Sites with 12.1 percent. Ask Network captured 3.2 percent of total search queries, followed by AOL LLC Network with 1.9 percent. Google’s share increased by 1.4 percentage points, primarily due to the impact of Instant Search.
Americans conducted 18.4 billion total core search queries in October with Google Sites leading with 11.8 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 3.4 billion and Microsoft Sites with 2.2 billion.
“Powered By” Reporting
As a part of comScore commitment to accurately represent the continued evolution of the search landscape, comScore is providing insight into the share of algorithmic Explicit searches that are powered by Google and Bing, and branded as such to the consumer. Google’s “powered by” share is composed of searches conducted at Google entities, as well as AOL and most of Ask’s MyWebSearch. Bing’s “powered by” share is composed of searches conducted at Bing entities as well as Yahoo! Web Search, Yahoo! Image Search and Yahoo! Video Search. Some of Yahoo!’s in-channel searches, such as movies and finance, are still provided by Yahoo!
In October, 69.2 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google, while 23.5 percent of searches were powered by Bing organic results.
