RESTON, Va., April 17, 2007 – comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In March 2007, Google Sites captured 48.3 percent of the U.S. search market, gaining 0.2 share points from the previous month. Yahoo! Sites maintained its second place ranking with 27.5 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (10.9 percent), Ask Network (5.2 percent) and Time Warner Network (5.0 percent).

•          Americans conducted 7.3 billion searches online in March, up 6 percent versus February and 14 percent versus March 2006.

•          Google Sites led the pack with 3.5 billion search queries performed, followed by Yahoo Sites (2.0 billion), Microsoft Sites (798 million), Ask Network (379 million), and Time Warner Network (368 million).

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