According to comScore, Google expanded its U.S. search kingdom to claim 2 out of every 3 search queries in May.
In May, Google Sites owned 66.7 percent of the
U.S. explicit core search market, up 0.2 percentage points from its 66.5 percent
share in April.
Microsoft Sites followed with 15.4 percent of the
market, unchanged from its slice of the pie in April. Meanwhile, Yahoo finished
May with 13.4 percent of the U.S. search market, down 0.1 percentage point from
its 13.5 percent share in April.
Ask Network had 3.0 percent of the market in May,
unchanged from its mark in April, while AOL Inc. claimed 1.5 percent of the
market, down 0.1 percentage point.
“’Explicit Core Search’ excludes contextually
driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the
search results,” according to comScore.
In May, 17.5 billion explicit core searches were
conducted, up 2 percent from the 17.1 billion queries conducted in the previous
month. Of this total, Google claimed 11.7 billion queries, up 3 percent.
Microsoft Sites claimed 2.7 billion queries, up 2 percent from April, while
Yahoo claimed 2.3 billion queries, up 1 percent month-over-month.
Ask Network handled 521 million queries in May, up
2 percent. AOL Inc. handled 268 million queries in May, down 1 percent from its
load in April, according to comScore.
The monthly search report also noted that 68.9
percent of searches in May carried organic results from Google, up 0.2
percentage points from April. Meanwhile, 25.6 percent of searches carried
results from Bing.
Separate numbers from Experian Hitwise revealed
the top five Google search terms for the four rolling weeks ending June 9:
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“facebook” (3.66 percent of searches; 81.95 percent success rate)
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“youtube” (1.01 percent of searches; 92.65 percent success rate)
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“yahoo” (0.65 percent of searches; 86.29 percent success rate)
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“yahoo mail” (0.59 percent of searches; 80.35 percent success rate)
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“craigslist” (0.45 percent of searches; 89.16 percent success rate)
Hitwise also listed the top five websites visited
after search engines for the week ending June 9:
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Facebook (6.44 percent of clicks)
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YouTube (3.79 percent of clicks)
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Gmail (2.25 percent of clicks)
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Wikipedia (1.28 percent of clicks)
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Yahoo Mail (1.08 percent of clicks)
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