June 11, 2014

Comscore Releases May 2014 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

RESTON, VA, June 11, 2014 – Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly Comscore qSearch™ analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in May with 67.6 percent of search queries conducted.

U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in May with 67.6 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 18.8 percent (up 0.1 percentage points) and Yahoo Sites with 10 percent. Ask Network accounted for 2.3 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.3 percent.

Comscore Explicit Core Search Share Report*
May 2014 vs. April 2014
Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations
Source: Comscore qSearch

Core Search Entity

Explicit Core Search Share (%)

Apr-14

May-14

Point Change

Total Explicit Core Search

100.0%

100.0%

N/A

Google Sites

67.6%

67.6%

0.0

Microsoft Sites

18.7%

18.8%

0.1

Yahoo Sites

10.0%

10.0%

0.0

Ask Network

2.4%

2.3%

-0.1

AOL, Inc.

1.3%

1.3%

0.0

*“Explicit Core Search” excludes contextually driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.

18.5 billion explicit core searches were conducted in May, with Google Sites ranking first with 12.5 billion. Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.5 billion searches, followed by Yahoo Sites with 1.8 billion, Ask Network with 423 million and AOL, Inc. with 241 million.

Comscore Explicit Core Search Query Report
May 2014 vs. April 2014
Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations
Source: Comscore qSearch

Core Search Entity

Explicit Core Search Queries (MM)

Apr-14

May-14

Percent Change

Total Explicit Core Search

18,597

18,496

-1%

Google Sites

12,576

12,501

-1%

Microsoft Sites

3,475

3,485

0%

Yahoo Sites

1,857

1,845

-2%

Ask Network

445

423

-5%

AOL, Inc.

243

241

-1%

“Powered By” Reporting
In May, 69.0 percent of searches carried organic search results from Google, while 27.0 percent of searches were powered by Bing (up 0.4 percentage points).

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