comScore Releases May 2009 Search Engine Rankings
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the United States search marketplace. In May 2009, Americans conducted 14.3 billion core searches.
Google’s websites continued to lead the US search market in April 2009 with 65.0 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! (20.1 percent), Microsoft (8.0 percent), Ask Network (3.9 percent) and AOL LLC (3.1 percent). Here are the official numbers, as reported by comScore:
comScore Core Search Report*
May 2009 vs. April 2009
Total U.S. - Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore qSearch
Share of Searches (%)
Point
Change
May-09 vs.
Core Search Entity Apr-09 May-09 Apr-09
Total Core Search 100.0 100.0 N/A
Google Sites 64.2 65.0 0.8
Yahoo! Sites 20.4 20.1 -0.3
Microsoft Sites** 8.2 8.0 -0.2
Ask Network 3.8 3.9 0.1
AOL LLC 3.4 3.1 -0.3
* 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.
** May data does not include search activity at Microsoft Bing, which was launched on June 1. Microsoft Bing will be included with June qSearch data.
comScore says that “Americans conducted 14.3 billion searches at the core search engines. Google Sites accounted for 9.3 billion core searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.9 billion and Microsoft Sites with 1.1 billion.”
comScore Core Search Report*
May 2009 vs. April 2009
Total U.S. - Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore qSearch
Search Queries (MM)
Percent
Change
May-09 vs.
Core Search Entity Apr-09 May-09 Apr-09
Total Core Search 14,751 14,327 -3
Google Sites 9,476 9,307 -2
Yahoo! Sites 3,008 2,877 -4
Microsoft Sites** 1,208 1,149 -5
Ask Network 563 555 -1
AOL LLC 496 438 -12
* 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.
** May data does not include search activity at Microsoft Bing, which was launched on June 1. Microsoft Bing will be included with June qSearch data.
From what is noted above, these numbers do not include the new search engine “Bing” (bing.com owned by Microsoft), as we’re actually seeing a decrease in the numbers from April 2009 to May 2009. What will be interesting is next month’s report from comScore, which will show the true impact of Microsoft launching the new Bing.com search engine.
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Jun 21st 2009
It’s no wonder Google leads the ranking in search engines. One day Google may get knocked off.
Jun 23rd 2009
I don’t think that Google will be knocked out. Looks like they are going to stay for a very long time. Its only through this blog that i learned that Microsoft had a site (bing.com). The listing section in the site are not so impressive as that of Google at the moment. Lets see what happens after a few years!!
Good luck to all of them!!
Jun 23rd 2009
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Jun 24th 2009
Well, I can say Google will be no. 1 and will be never knockout!!
Jun 25th 2009
I agree with the other comments regarding Bing – it will be interesting to see what sort of impact this will have on the other big players in the search total information for next month. There are still a lot of people out there who have not heard of Bing and I was very surprised to notice it showing up yesterday in an internet cafe when I was having my lunch. I thought only those who follow the web and the wonderful enhancements and changes actually would have heard of it but I was wrong!!
Jun 26th 2009
It will be really interesting to see if Bing makes any headway. It’s easy to think that anything Microsoft puts their mind to will succeed but there have been many exceptions in the past. Google seems to always be keeping one step ahead these days. And Google has as big a bank account as does MS to invest too!
Abbie Mulder
Jul 7th 2009
That large gap between Google and Yahoo will always and I think forever be that way except if Yahoo develops a new Search Engine Algorithm that will beat Google’s. But that would be a reach.
Jul 15th 2009
I find that really suprising that google doesn’t have a larger market percentage. I wonder if as more and more young people grow up on google if their market share will grow signifigantly. At this point yahoo seems to cluttered for me to use it as my full time search engine. Ask, and Microsoft are definitely not their either. Google is just better.