May 2013 US search engine rankings

24 Jun 2013

RESTON, US: comScore, Inc recently released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the US search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in May with 66.7% of search queries conducted.

US explicit core search

Google Sites led the US explicit core search market in May with 66.7% market share (up 0.2 percentage points), followed by Microsoft Sites with 17.4% (up 0.1 percentage points) and Yahoo! Sites with 11.9%. Ask Network accounted for 2.7% of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.3%.

comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report* May 2013 vs April 2013 Total US - Home & Work Locations (Source: comScore qSearch)
Core Search Entity	Explicit Core Search Share (%)
	Apr-13	May-13	Point Change
Total Explicit Core Search	100.0%	100.0%	N/A
Google Sites	66.5%	66.7%	0.2
Microsoft Sites	17.3%	17.4%	0.1
Yahoo! Sites	12.0%	11.9%	-0.1
Ask Network	2.7%	2.7%	0.0
AOL, Inc.	1.5%	1.3%	-0.2

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

20 billion explicit core searches were conducted in May, with Google Sites ranking first with 13.4 billion. Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.5 billion searches (up 1%), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.4 billion, Ask Network with 547 million (up 1%) and AOL, Inc. with 266 million.

comScore Explicit Core Search Query Report May 2013 vs April 2013 Total US - Home & Work Locations (Source: comScore qSearch
Core Search Entity	Explicit Core Search Queries (MM)
	Apr-13	May-13	Percent Change
Total Explicit Core Search	20,016	20,032	0%
Google Sites	13,317	13,353	0%
Microsoft Sites	3,467	3,490	1%
Yahoo! Sites	2,403	2,375	-1%
Ask Network	539	547	1%
AOL, Inc.	290	266	-8%