comScore Releases June U.S. Search Engine Rankings

comScore, Inc. SCOR today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google GOOG Sites led the explicit core search market in June with 65.5 percent of search queries conducted. Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in June with 65.5 percent market share, followed by Yahoo! YHOO Sites with 15.9 percent and Microsoft MSFT Sites with 14.4 percent (up 0.3 percentage points). Ask Network accounted for 2.9 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. AOL with 1.4 percent. More than 16.7 billion explicit core searches were conducted in June. Google Sites ranked first with 10.9 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.7 billion and Microsoft Sites with 2.4 billion. Ask Network delivered 478 million searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 239 million. Google Sites accounted for 64.5 percent of total core search queries conducted (up 1.2 percentage points), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 17.5 percent and Microsoft Sites with 14.1 percent (up 1.0 percentage points). Ask Network comprised 2.6 percent of total search queries, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.3 percent. Americans conducted more than 18.7 billion total core search queries in June (down 3 percent). Google Sites ranked first with 12.1 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 3.3 billion and Microsoft Sites with 2.6 billion (up 5 percent).