The April 2011 qSearch data reflect the impact of Yahoo! Search Direct, Yahoo!'s new feature that delivers search results in real-time while users type their query. Yahoo! Search Direct was available only on Yahoo! US Web Search for the month of April.
Google Sites led the US explicit core search market in April with 65.4% market share, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 15.9% (up 0.2 percentage points) and Microsoft Sites with 14.1% (up 0.2 percentage points). Ask Network accounted for 3.0% of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.5%.
| comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report* April 2011 vs. March 2011 Total US - Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Core Search Entity | Explicit Core Search Share (%) | ||
| Mar-11 | Apr-11 | Point Change | |
| Total Explicit Core Search | 100.0% | 100.0% | N/A |
| Google Sites | 65.7% | 65.4% | -0.3 |
| Yahoo! Sites | 15.7% | 15.9% | 0.2 |
| Microsoft Sites | 13.9% | 14.1% | 0.2 |
| Ask Network | 3.1% | 3.0% | -0.1 |
| AOL, Inc. | 1.6% | 1.5% | -0.1 |
*"Explicit Core Search" excludes contextually driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.
More than 16.2 billion explicit core searches were conducted in April. Google Sites ranked first with 10.7 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.6 billion, Microsoft Sites with 2.3 billion, Ask Network with 491 million and AOL, Inc. with 248 million.
| comScore Explicit Core Search Query Report April 2011 vs. March 2011 Total US - Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Core Search Entity | Explicit Core Search Queries (MM) | ||
| Mar-11 | Apr-11 | Percent Change | |
| Total Explicit Core Search | 16,940 | 16,277 | -4% |
| Google Sites | 11,123 | 10,652 | -4% |
| Yahoo! Sites | 2,662 | 2,584 | -3% |
| Microsoft Sites | 2,362 | 2,301 | -3% |
| Ask Network | 520 | 491 | -6% |
| AOL, Inc. | 272 | 248 | -9% |
Google Sites accounted for 64.2% of total core search queries conducted (up 0.1 percentage points), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 17.9% and Microsoft Sites with 13.8% (up 0.2 percentage points). Ask Network comprised 2.7% of total search queries, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.4%.
| comScore Total Core Search Share Report* April 2011 vs. March 2011 Total US - Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Core Search Entity | Total Core Search Share (%) | ||
| Mar-11 | Apr-11 | Point Change | |
| Total Core Search | 100.0% | 100.0% | N/A |
| Google Sites | 64.1% | 64.2% | 0.1 |
| Yahoo! Sites | 18.0% | 17.9% | -0.1 |
| Microsoft Sites | 13.6% | 13.8% | 0.2 |
| Ask Network | 2.8% | 2.7% | -0.1 |
| AOL, Inc. | 1.4% | 1.4% | 0.0 |
*"Total Core Search" is based on the five major search engines, including partner searches, cross-channel searches and contextual 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 these numbers.
Americans conducted more than 18.0 billion total core search queries in April. Google Sites ranked first with 11.6 billion searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 3.2 billion and Microsoft Sites with 2.5 billion.
| comScore Total Core Search Query Report April 2011 vs. March 2011 Total US - Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Core Search Entity | Total Core Search Queries (MM) | ||
| Mar-11 | Apr-11 | Percent Change | |
| Total Core Search | 18,886 | 18,089 | -4% |
| Google Sites | 12,113 | 11,609 | -4% |
| Yahoo! Sites | 3,405 | 3,239 | -5% |
| Microsoft Sites | 2,576 | 2,501 | -3% |
| Ask Network | 520 | 491 | -6% |
| AOL, Inc. | 272 | 248 | -9% |
In order to represent the continued evolution of the search landscape accurately, 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 branded searches at AOL and Ask. Bing's "powered by" share is composed of searches conducted at Microsoft entities as well as branded Yahoo! entities.
In April, 67.8% of searches carried organic search results from Google, while 26.5% of searches were powered by Bing organic results.
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