comScore Releases March 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. March 2008 saw Americans conduct 10.8 billion core searches, representing a 9-percent increase versus February.

In March, Google Sites extended its share of core searches to 59.8 percent, up from 59.2 percent the previous month. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 21.3 percent, followed by Microsoft Sites (9.4 percent), AOL LLC (4.8 percent), and Ask Network (4.7 percent).

Americans conducted 10.8 billion searches at the core search engines, representing a 9-percent gain versus February. Each of the five core search engines experienced search query gains during the month. Google Sites saw more than 6.4 billion core searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.3 billion, and Microsoft Sites with 1 billion.

In the March 2008 analysis of the Top 50 properties where search activity is observed, Google Sites led with 8.3 billion searches. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 2.4 billion searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (more than 1 billion), and AOL LLC (891 million).

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a global leader in measuring the digital world.

SOURCE comScore, Inc.