comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) released the April 2013 U.S. Search Engine Rankings, which revealed that, although Google Sites led the explicit core search market with 66.5% of all search queries conducted, their market share was down 0.6 % compared to March 2013, when it was 67.1%.
While Google’s market share dropped, Microsoft sites registered an increase of 0.4%, from 16.9% in March, to 17.3% in April. The table below also gives an overview for Yahoo! Sites, Ask Network and AOL.
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comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report* April 2013 vs. March 2013 Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations Source: comScore qSearch |
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| Core Search Entity | Explicit Core Search Share (%) | ||
| Mar-13 | Apr-13 | Point Change | |
| Total Explicit Core Search | 100.0% | 100.0% | N/A |
| Google Sites | 67.1% | 66.5% | -0.6 |
| Microsoft Sites | 16.9% | 17.3% | 0.4 |
| Yahoo! Sites | 11.8% | 12.0% | 0.2 |
| Ask Network | 2.7% | 2.7% | 0.0 |
| AOL, Inc. | 1.6% | 1.4% | -0.2 |
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Google Search Market Share Down 0.6% Points in April