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ComScore September 2007 USA Search Engine Rankings

By: Bill Hartzer
2007-10-23

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR), the company that measures the digital world, has released their monthly comScore qSearch analysis that shows the search engine rankings in the USA.

In September 2007, Googles sites remained the top search engine property with more than 5.3 billion searches conducted by Google users. This represented a 57 percent share of the overall search engine market in the USA. Yahoo!s sites and the Ask Network posted gains during the September 2007.


Heres what comScore reported for the month of September, 2007:


September U.S. Core Search Rankings
comScore Core Search Report*
September 2007
Total U.S. - Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore qSearch 2.0
                             Share of Searches (%)
                                            Point
                                           Change
Core Search                               Sep-07 vs.
Entity                 Aug - 07   Sep -07   Aug-07
Total Core Search       100.0%    100.0%     0.0
Google Sites             56.5%     57.0%     0.5
Yahoo! Sites             23.3%     23.7%     0.4
Microsoft Sites          11.3%     10.3%    -1.0
Ask Network              4.5%       4.7%     0.2
Time Warner Network      4.5%       4.3%    -0.2

The data above is 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.


In September 2007, Americans performed 9.4 billion searches at the major search engines. This is a four percent decline versus August 2007. September 2007 is usually a softer month for search activity due to the month being a 30 day month with a long holiday weekend. More than 5.3 billion searches were performed at Googles sites during September 2007, while Yahoo! Sites recorded 2.2 billion.



comScore Core Search Report
September 2007
Total U.S. - Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore qSearch 2.0
                Search Queries (MM)
                                         Percent
                                          Change
                                         Sep-07 vs.
Core Search Entity     Aug-07   Sep-07    Aug-07
Total Core Search      9,820    9,400     -4.3%
Google Sites           5,545    5,356     -3.4%
Yahoo! Sites           2,290    2,227     -2.7%
Microsoft Sites        1,106      969    -12.4%
Ask Network              438      444      1.2%
Time Warner Network      441      405     -8.2%

The data above is 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.


September U.S. Expanded Search Rankings


In the September 2007 analysis of the Top 50 web properties worldwide where search activity is observed by comScore, Googles sites clearly won with 6.6 billion searches. Yahoo!s sites ranked second with nearly 2.4 billion searches and was followed by Microsoft Sites with 999 million searches, Time Warner Network with 843 million searches, and Fox Interactive Media with 492 million searches during September 2007. According to comScore, Despite the decline in overall search activity in September, Ask.com saw a 10-percent gain versus August.


comScore Expanded Search Query Report
September 2007
Total U.S. - Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore qSearch 2.0
                              Search Queries (MM)
                                                     Percent
                                                     Change
                                                    Sep-07 vs.
Expanded Search Entity        Aug-07     Sep-07       Aug-07
Total Expanded Search         13,703     13,018        -5.0%
Google Sites                   6,809      6,593        -3.2%
  Google                       5,602      5,388        -3.8%
  YouTube/All Other            1,207      1,205        -0.2%
Yahoo! Sites                   2,473      2,381        -3.7%
  Yahoo!                       2,438      2,346        -3.8%
  All Other                       35         35         0.0%
Microsoft Sites                1,144        999       -12.7%
  MSN-Windows Live             1,111        966       -13.1%
  Microsoft/All Other             33         33         0.0%
Time Warner Network              937        843       -10.0%
  AOL                            438        397        -9.4%
  Mapquest/All Other             499        446       -10.6%
Fox Interactive Media            571        492       -13.8%
  MySpace                        560        483       -13.8%
  All Other                       11          9       -18.2%
eBay                             457        445        -2.6%
Ask Network                      439        445         1.4%
  Ask.com                        205        226        10.2%
  MyWebSearch.com/All Other      234        219        -6.4%
CRAIGSLIST.ORG                   199        197        -1.0%
Amazon Sites                     154        138       -10.4%
Comcast Corporation               73         65       -11.0%

As you may recall, back on August 20th, 2007, I reported about comScore qSearch and how they began showing and reporting on a lot more data. comScore qSearch now nows not only the search data at the major search engines like Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com, they now report searches that were performed at a lot of other web properties. qSearch now includes data from the following sources:



" Core Search Engines - the five major U.S. search engines (i.e. Google Sites, Yahoo! Sites, Microsoft Sites, Ask Network and Time Warner Network).

" Top 50 properties worldwide where search activity is observed, which includes sites such as MySpace, Baidu, and Naver.

" Major vertical search locations - such as eBay and Amazon in retail and Expedia in travel.

" Partner Search - searches initiated at partner sites that redirect the visitor to a search engine site.

" Cross-Channel Search - counts multiple searches when employing more than one search tab (e.g. Web, images, news) for a single search term.

" Local Search - maps, directions, and local directory listings.

" Worldwide Search - includes comprehensive reporting of worldwide search, with individual country reporting for the U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., France, Germany, Japan, China, and Korea.

The Time Warner Network, which includes AOL and Mapquest is interesting to follow. However, Ive personally be interested in the number of searches that are growing amongst the Fox Interactive Media, eBay, and Craigslist.org properties.


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About the Author:
Bill Hartzer manages the Search Engine Marketing and Social Media Marketing team at Vizion Interactive, a leading search engine marketing, social media marketing, and web design firm based in the Dallas, Texas area. Hartzer recently joined Vizion Interactive, where his vast experience in the both search engine marketing and social media marketing bolster's Vizion Interactive's already robust search engine marketing and social media marketing offerings.


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