AnalyticscomScore: Google Leads On March 2006 US Search Share

comScore: Google Leads On March 2006 US Search Share

You may have seen some rumblings a couple of weeks ago about Google being up
in search traffic compared to competitors, based on
comScore figures. I’m going to do a big
drill down on that later this week, bringing in some NetRatings and Hitwise
figures as well. But more comScore figures have just arrived for March, so here
they are:

Share of Online Searches
US Home, Work & University Users

Search Network March 2005 March 2006 Change
Google 36.4% 42.7% +6.3%
Yahoo 30.6% 28.0% -2.6%
MSN/Microsoft 16.5% 13.2% -3.3%
AOL/Time Warner 8.9% 7.6% -1.4%
Ask 5.5% 5.9% +0.4%

Other notes from the comScore
release:

  • Americans conducted 6.4 billion searches online in March, up 10 percent
    from last month and 15 percent from last year. The increase in search queries
    from the previous month marked the largest gain over the past twelve months.
     
  • Google Sites led the pack with 2.7 billion search queries performed,
    followed by Yahoo Sites (1.8 billion), MSN-Microsoft (849 million),
    Time-Warner Network (486 million), and Ask Jeeves/Ask Network (376 million).
     
  • The toolbar search market continues to be dominated by Google and Yahoo!,
    which combined for more than 95 percent of toolbar searches in March. Google
    led the way with 48.9 percent, while Yahoo! captured 46.5 percent.

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