comScore Networks released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. Google maintained its lead in market share among the top search engines.
QSearch is part of comScore's Online Search Solutions, which measures 20 of the top search sites, including aol.com, google.com, and yahoo.com, to report metrics for the U.S. Internet population. It also provides worldwide and U.S. work, home, and university breakouts. ComScore releases data collected from its opt-in user panel.
Share of Online Searches by Engine
January 2007 – February 2007
Total U.S. Home, Work and University Internet Users
Source: comScore qSearch |
| |
Jan-07 |
Feb-07 |
Pt Chg vs. Previous Month |
| Total Internet Population |
100% |
100% |
N/A |
Google Sites |
47.5 |
48.1 |
0.6 |
Yahoo! Sites |
28.1 |
28.1 |
0.0 |
Microsoft Sites |
10.6 |
10.5 |
-0.1 |
Ask Network |
5.2 |
5.0 |
-0.2 |
Time Warner Network |
5.0 |
4.9 |
-0.1 |
Americans conducted 6.9 billion searches online in January, up 2 percent versus December. Annual growth rates in search query volume remained strong with a 26-percent increase since the same month a year ago.
Google sites led in the number of search queries performed in January with 3.3 billion, followed by Yahoo sites (1.9 billion), MSN-Microsoft (733 million), Ask network (361 million), and Time Warner network (342 million).
Source : comScore
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