2009-06-03 Research company comScore says Google again led the U.S. core Internet search market in May.
According to Reston-based comScore its analysis of the U.S. search marketplace found Americans conducted 14.3 billion core searches in May.
In the comScore analysis of the five major search engines, Google sites led with 9.3 billion core searches. Yahoo! ranked second with 2.9 billion searches, followed by Microsoft with 1.2 billion, Ask Network had 563 million and AOL showed 496 million.
Google actually saw a 0.8 percent increase in its May over April numbers gobbling up 65 percent of the searches conducted. Yahoo came in at 20.1 percent, Microsoft Sites 8.0 percent, Ask Network 3.9 percent and AOL captured only 3.1 percent.
The May consolidated data does not include search activity at Microsoft Bing, which was launched on June 1. Bing will be included with June data. But, Microsoft's new search engine increased its share of the market for a second straight week ending June 12. Bing's U.S. usage rose 0.8 of a percent to 12.1 percent after jumping 2 percentage points in the previous week.
