The numbers are in! TodaycomScore, an X, released its latest analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. While Facebookmay have surpassedGoogle as the most visited site in 2010,Google Sitesstill led in search for the month of December, grabbing up 66.6% of the search market share in the U.S..
Up just .4% from the previous month, Google led the pack, followed byYahoo!with 16% andMicrosoftsites (namelyBing) with 12%. The little guys, AskNetwork accounted for 3.5% withAOL LLCNetwork trailing behind with a tiny 1.9%.
comScore pulled this data from more than 16.4 billion explicit core searches (which excludes contextually driven searches). Google Sites ranked first with nearly 11 billion searches, up 3% since November. Yahoo! Sites came in second with 2.6 billion, followed by Microsoft Sites with nearly 2.0 billion, Ask Network with 575 million and AOL LLC Network with 312 million. Overall it appears that people were searching more in general in the month of December (online shopping anyone?), but only 3% more.
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Does this data shock you? I didn’t think so. Regardless of Google’s zodiac sign, we predict it will hold the top spot for many moons to come. That is, of course, unless Facebook decides to take a stab at its own social search platform…
Story byCourtney Boyd Myers
Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups gr(show all)Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder ofaudience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups grow internationally.
Previously, she was the Features Editor and East Coast Editor of TNW covering New York City startups and digital innovation. She loves magnets + reading on a Kindle.
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