Comscore Releases February 2009 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

RESTON, VA, March 13, 2009 – Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly Comscore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Americans conducted 13.1 billion core searches in February 2009, down 3 percent versus January – a decline that is primarily the result of the shortened month.

February 2009 U.S. Core Search Rankings

Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in February with 63.3 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.6 percent), Microsoft Sites (8.2 percent), Ask Network (4.1 percent) and AOL LLC (3.9 percent).

Comscore Core Search Report*
February 2009 vs. January 2009
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: Comscore qSearch 2.0

Core Search Entity

Share of Searches (%)

Jan-09

Feb-09

Point Change Feb-09 vs. Jan-09

Total Core Search

100.0

100.0

N/A

Google Sites

63.0

63.3

0.3

Yahoo! Sites

21.0

20.6

-0.4

Microsoft Sites

8.5

8.2

-0.3

Ask Network

3.7

4.1

0.4

AOL LLC

3.9

3.9

0.0

* 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.

Americans conducted 13.1 billion searches at the core search engines, down 3 percent from January. Google Sites handled 8.3 billion core searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.7 billion and Microsoft Sites with 1.1 billion.

Comscore Core Search Report*
February 2009 vs. January 2009
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: Comscore qSearch 2.0

Core Search Entity

Search Queries (MM)

Jan-09

Feb-09

Percent Change Feb-09 vs. Jan-09

Total Core Search

13,496

13,104

-3%

Google Sites

8,497

8,293

-2%

Yahoo! Sites

2,836

2,696

-5%

Microsoft Sites

1,146

1,073

-6%

Ask Network

497

536

8%

AOL LLC

520

507

-3%

* 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.

February 2009 U.S. Expanded Search Rankings

In the Comscore February 2009 analysis of the top properties where search activity is observed, Google Sites led with 11.3 billion searches, down 4 percent versus January. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 2.8 billion searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (1.1 billion) and AOL LLC (761 million).

Comscore Expanded Search Query Report
February 2009 vs. January 2009
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: Comscore qSearch 2.0

Expanded Search Entity

Search Queries (MM)

Jan-09

Feb-09

Percent Change Feb-09 vs. Jan-09

Total Expanded Search

19,979

19,176

-4%

Google Sites

11,714

11,250

-4%

Google

8,731

8,541

-2%

YouTube/All Other

2,983

2,709

-9%

Yahoo! Sites

2,979

2,828

-5%

Yahoo!

2,952

2,804

-5%

All Other

27

23

-13%

Microsoft Sites

1,188

1,109

-7%

MSN-Windows Live

1,084

1,015

-6%

Microsoft/All Other

104

94

-10%

AOL LLC

781

761

-3%

AOL Search Network

452

439

-3%

MapQuest/All Other

330

322

-2%

Ask Network

645

678

5%

Ask.com

317

384

21%

MyWebSearch.com/ All Other

328

294

-10%

eBay

541

513

-5%

Craigslist.org

497

511

3%

Fox Interactive Media

558

487

-13%

MySpace

550

479

-13%

All Other

8

7

-10%

Facebook.com

195

206

6%

Amazon Sites

196

170

-13%

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