Microsoft gains search market share in June, Google drops a little
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comScore, Inc. has released monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In June 2008, Americans conducted 11.5 billion core searches, representing a 7-percent gain versus May. An interesting trend for June was a 0.7% gain in core search market share by Microsoft while Google lost 0.3%. Microsoft sites saw an increase in search queries by 15% for June, the largest increase in June among the top 5 search engines.
Google Sites retained their lead in the U.S. core search market capturing 61.5 percent of the searches conducted, down slightly from 61.8 percent in May. Google was followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.9 percent, up from 20.6 percent in May), Microsoft Sites (9.2 percent, up from 8.5 percent in May), Ask Network (4.3 percent), and AOL LLC (4.1 percent).
