Online analytics company comScore has said that Google Sites led the explicit core search market in the US in July with 65.1% of search queries conducted.
In its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the US search marketplace, the company said that Yahoo Sites were in the second position with 16.1% (up 0.2 percentage points) and Microsoft Sites with 14.4% were at the third position.
The other players were Ask Network with 2.9% and AOL with 1.5%.
Over 17.1bn explicit core searches were conducted in July, up 3% compared to the previous month.
Google Sites ranked first with 11.2 billion searches (up 2%), followed by Yahoo Sites with 2.8 billion (up 4%) and Microsoft Sites with 2.5 billion (up 3%). Ask Network delivered 494 million searches (up 3%), followed by AOL with 251 million (up 5%), said the report.
In total core search, Google Sites accounted for 64.8% of total core search queries conducted, followed by Yahoo Sites with 17.9% and Microsoft Sites with 13.4%. Ask Network comprised 2.6% of total search queries, followed by AOL with 1.3%.
comScore said that in July, Americans conducted 19.2 billion total core search queries (up 3%).
Google Sites ranked first with 12.5 billion searches (up 3%), followed by Yahoo Sites with 3.4 billion (up 5%) and Microsoft Sites with 2.6 billion.
In July, 67.2% of searches carried organic search results from Google (vs. 67.6% in June), while 26.8% of searches were powered by Bing (vs. 26.6% in June).
