comScore Releases September U.S. Search Engine Rankings
RESTON, Va., October 19, 2006 - comScore Networks today released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines.
Monthly U.S. Search Market Update
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Share of Online Searches by Engine July 2006 - September 2006 Total U.S. Home, Work and University Internet Users Source: comScore qSearch |
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Jul-06 (000) |
Aug-06 (000) |
Sept-06 (000) |
Pt. Chg vs. Previous Month* |
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Total Internet Population (U.S.) |
100% |
100% |
100% |
N/A |
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Google Sites. |
43.7 |
44.1 |
45.1 |
1.0 |
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Yahoo! Sites |
28.8 |
28.7 |
28.1 |
-0.6 |
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Microsoft Sites |
12.8 |
12.5 |
11.9 |
-0.6 |
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Ask Network |
5.4 |
5.5 |
5.8 |
0.3 |
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Time Warner Network |
5.9 |
5.6 |
5.6 |
0.0 |
· Americans conducted 6.6 billion searches online in September, up 2 percent versus August. Annual growth rates in search query volume remained strong with a 31-percent increase since September 2005.
· 879 million toolbar searches were conducted in September, accounting for 13 percent of the total U.S. search market.
For more information on comScore qSearch, please email searchsolutions@comscore.com or call (650) 244-5412.
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