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Top Search Engines

Top 10 Search Providers for April 2009 (U.S)

Ranked by Searches (U.S.)

RANK Provider Searches (000) YOY Growth % of all Searches
All Search 8,608,488 4.40% 100.00%
1 Google Search 5,510,366 7.80% 64.0%
2 Yahoo! Search 1,406,416 -2.80% 16.3%
3 MSN/Windows Live Search 852,998 7.20% 9.9%
4 AOL Search 321,205 -8.80% 3.7%
5 Ask.com Search 181,617 5.90% 2.1%
6 My Web Search Search 59,110 3.60% 0.70%
7 Comcast Search 45,338 -1.80% 0.50%
8 Yellow Pages Search 37,160 N/A* 0.40%
9 NexTag Search 22,845 3.90% 0.30%
10 Dogpile.com Search 17,010 3.10% 0.20%
Source: Nielsen MegaView Search

* A year-over-year comparison is not possible because of a definitional change to Yellow Pages Search.

The Top 5 Search Engine Market Shares

comScore Core Search Report*
January 2008
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore qSearch 2.0

  
 
 
 

Core Search Entity

Share of Searches (%)

  

Dec-07

Jan-08

Point Change Jan-08 vs. Dec-07

  

Total Core Search

100.0%

100.0%

0.0

  

Google Sites

58.4%

58.5%

0.1

  

Yahoo! Sites

22.9%

22.2%

-0.7

  

Microsoft Sites

9.8%

9.8%

0.0

  

AOL LLC**

4.6%

4.9%

0.3

  

Ask Network

4.3%

4.5%

0.2

  

* Based on the five major search engines including partner searches and cross-channel searches. Searches for mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five search engines are not included in the core search numbers.

** In January 2008, Time Warner Network was split into two distinct properties: AOL LLC and Time Warner Network excluding AOL, with AOL LLC representing the core search business.

 

Source:

http://www.comscore.com/