comScore has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the United States search engine rankings for May, 2008. Last month, searchers in the United States conducted 10.8 billion core searches. Google increased their market share slightly according to the stats.
In May, Google’s core searches reached 61.8 percent, which was up from 61.6 percent over the previous month. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with a 20.6 percent share (up from 20.4 percent the prior month), followed by Microsoft Sites (8.5 percent), AOL LLC (4.5 percent), and Ask Network (4.5 percent).
comScore Core Search Report*
May 2008 vs. April 2008
Total U.S. - Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore qSearch 2.0
Share of Searches (%)
Point
Change
May-08
vs.
Core Search Entity Apr-08 May-08 Apr-08
Total Core Search 100.0% 100.0% N/A
Google Sites 61.6% 61.8% 0.2
Yahoo! Sites 20.4% 20.6% 0.2
Microsoft Sites 9.1% 8.5% -0.6
AOL LLC 4.6% 4.5% -0.1
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.
Searchers in the United States conducted 10.8 billion searches at the major search engines, representing a 2-percent increase versus April. Google handled nearly 6.7 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! with 2.2 billion, and Microsoft with 920 million.
comScore Core Search Report*
May 2008 vs. April 2008
Total U.S. - Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore qSearch 2.0
Search Queries (MM)
Percent
Change
May-08
vs.
Core Search Entity Apr-08 May-08 Apr-08
Total Core Search 10,582 10,777 2%
Google Sites 6,514 6,664 2%
Yahoo! Sites 2,159 2,221 3%
Microsoft Sites 961 920 -4%
AOL LLC 491 486 -1%
Ask Network 458 486 6%
* 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 comScore’s May 2008 analysis of the Top 50 web properties where they watch search activity, Google led with 8.8 billion searches. Yahoo! ranked second with 2.4 billion searches, followed by Microsoft with 963 million searches, and AOL with 831 million searches.
comScore Expanded Search Query Report
May 2008 vs. April 2008
Total U.S. - Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore qSearch 2.0
Search Queries (MM)
Percent
Change
May-08
vs.
Expanded Search Entity Apr-08 May-08 Apr-08
Total Expanded Search 14,988 15,463 3%
Google Sites 8,467 8,838 4%
Google 6,639 6,814 3%
YouTube/All Other 1,828 2,024 11%
Yahoo! Sites 2,323 2,387 3%
Yahoo! 2,290 2,352 3%
All Other 33 35 6%
Microsoft Sites 1,000 963 -4%
MSN-Windows Live 964 932 -3%
Microsoft/All Other 36 31 -14%
AOL LLC 839 831 -1%
AOL Search Network 459 456 -1%
MapQuest/All Other 380 375 -1%
Ask Network 461 489 6%
Ask.com 298 321 8%
MyWebSearch.com/ All Other 163 168 3%
eBay 450 449 0%
Fox Interactive Media 360 402 12%
MySpace 354 395 12%
All Other 6 7 17%
Craigslist.org 273 314 15%
Amazon Sites 137 141 3%
Facebook.com 112 121 8%