comScore (website) tracks the volume of searches in the United States each month. Following are their findings for November 2008, compared to October 2008.
November 2008 U.S. Core Search Rankings
Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in November with 63.5 percent of the searches conducted, up 0.4 percentage points from October, followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.4 percent), Microsoft Sites (8.3 percent), Ask Network (4.0 percent), and AOL LLC (3.8 percent). Visit the comScore website to see their full findings.
| comScore Core Search Report* November 2008 vs. October 2008 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch 2.0 |
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| Core Search Entity |
Share of Searches (%) |
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|
Oct-08 |
Nov-08 |
Point Change Nov-08 vs. Oct-08 |
|
| Total Core Search |
100.0 |
100.0 |
N/A |
|
Google Sites |
63.1 |
63.5 |
0.4 |
|
Yahoo! Sites |
20.5 |
20.4 |
-0.1 |
| Microsoft Sites |
8.5 |
8.3 |
-0.2 |
| Ask Network |
4.2 |
4.0 |
-0.2 |
| AOL LLC |
3.7 |
3.8 |
0.1 |
* Based on the five major search engines including partner searches and cross-channel searches. Searches for mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five search engines are not included in the core search numbers.
