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Microsoft Search Queries Jump 15percents

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In June, Google Sites retained its 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).

Americans conducted 11.5 billion searches at the core search engines, representing a 7-percent increase versus May. Google Sites handled more than 7 billion core searches (up 6 percent from May), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.4 billion (up 9 percent), and Microsoft Sites with more than 1 billion (up 15 percent).

comScore Core Search Report* June 2008 vs. May 2008 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch 2.0
Core Search Entity	Share of Searches (%)
Core Search Entity	May-08	Jun-08	Point Change Jun-08 vs. May-08
Total Core Search	100.0%	100.0%	0.0
Google Sites	61.8%	61.5%	-0.3
Yahoo! Sites	20.6%	20.9%	0.3
Microsoft Sites	8.5%	9.2%	0.7
Ask Network	4.5%	4.3%	-0.2
AOL LLC	4.5%	4.1%	-0.4