Google Sees Its U.S. Search Market Share Jump a Full Point In May, Marking Tenth Consecutive Monthly Gain
RESTON, Va., June 21, 2006 - comScore Networks today released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In May 2006, Google gained in search market share for the tenth consecutive month and maintained its status as market leader with 44.1 percent of searches conducted on its sites. Yahoo! remained in second place with 27.9 percent, while MSN ranked third with 12.9 percent.
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Share of Online Searches by Engine May 2006 vs. May 2005 Total U.S. - Home, Work and University Internet Users Source: comScore qSearch |
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May-05 |
Apr-06 |
May-06 |
Pt Chg vs. Yr Ago |
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Total Internet Population |
100% |
100% |
100% |
N/A |
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Google Sites |
37.5% |
43.1% |
44.1% |
6.6 |
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Yahoo! Sites |
30.1% |
28.0% |
27.9% |
-2.2 |
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MSN-Microsoft Sites |
15.2% |
12.9% |
12.9% |
-2.3 |
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Time Warner Network |
9.3% |
6.9% |
6.7% |
-2.6 |
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Ask Network |
6.2% |
5.8% |
5.3% |
-0.9 |
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MySpace.com Search |
N/A |
0.6% |
0.7% |
N/A |
? Americans conducted 7.4 billion searches online in May, up 12 percent from April.
? Google Sites registered the most search queries performed with 3.3 billion, followed by Yahoo! Sites (2.1 billion), MSN-Microsoft (963 million), Time-Warner Network (499 million), and Ask Jeeves/Ask Network (392 million).
? MySpace.com maintained its 6th place ranking with 53 million searches conducted on the site in May, increasing its market share to 0.7 percent.
? Google and Yahoo! once again dominated the toolbar search market, combining for more than 95 percent of the market share in May. Google grabbed 49.1 percent of toolbar searches, while Yahoo! captured 46.2 percent.
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