SeoPapers - article Google Tops June comScore Search Engine Rankings

Reston, Virginia - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - July 19, 2007 - comScore digital measurement service, has indicated that in June 2007, Google websites maintained its 49.5 percent ranking at the top of the U.S. search market, in its its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines.

Yahoo! Sites captured second place with 25.1 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (13.2 percent), Ask Network (5.0 percent) and Time Warner Network (4.2 percent). Share of Online Searches by Engine May 2007 - June 2007 Total U.S. Home, Work and University Internet Users Source: comScore qSearch Pt Chg vs. Previous May-07 Jun-07 Month Total Internet Population 100.0% 100.0% N/A Google Sites 50.7% 49.5% -1.2 Yahoo! Sites 26.4% 25.1% -1.3 Microsoft Sites 10.3% 13.2% 2.9 Ask Network 5.0% 5.0% 0.0 Time Warner Network 4.6% 4.2% -0.4 -- Americans conducted 8.0 billion searches online in June, up 6 percent versus May and up 26 percent versus June 2006. -- Google Sites led the pack with 4.0 billion search queries performed, followed by Yahoo Sites (2.0 billion), Microsoft Sites (1.1 billion), Ask Network (403 million), and Time Warner Network (341 million). Despite declining in search market share in June, both Google Sites and Yahoo! Sites enjoyed increases in search query volume. -- Microsoft Sites experienced a significant increase in search query volume (up 36 percent) and search market share (up 2.9 share points) in June, due in large part to Live Search Club, a program launched by Microsoft in late May to engage and reward users of Live Search.

comScore World Metrix continuously measures and reports online behaviour on a world-wide basis, providing visitation metrics and demographic characteristics for web site audiences around the world. With active representation of countries that comprise the vast majority of the global Internet population, World Metrix provides its clients with worldwide Internet population estimates and harmonized online performance metrics based on a consistent methodology across all countries. More than 100 clients subscribe to comScore's World Metrix service, including 8 of the top 10 interactive advertising agencies.

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