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According to comScore, 43.7% of all search queries conducted in the United States in July used a Google search engine, down from the 44.7% attributed to Google the month before.
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ComScore reports No. 2 Internet search engine Yahoo Search, from Yahoo Inc., saw its share of U.S. Internet search queries increase to 28.8% in July from 28.5% the month before.Meanwhile search engine AOL’s U.S. share was up to 5.9% in July from the 5.6% it garnered in June, comScore notes.
Also soaking up Google’s U.S. losses was Ask, owned by IAC Search & Media . The Ask search engine’s U.S. market share rose to 5.4% in July from 5.1% in June, comScore reported.
It wasn’t good news for Microsoft though – their share was flat. The comScore Web site doesn’t have a press release yet, but you do have to wonder about the margin of error since they are shaving fractions of a point. In any case, it looks like Google’s US share has stalled even if you want to count AOL search as part of their total.
Update 8/21: The comScore press release is now online.
August 21st, 2006 at 6:10 PM
[...] Much like last week’s report from comScore, Nielsen/NetRatings is reporting that Google’s US search share dropped slightly in July: Nielsen/NetRatings, an Internet research firm, said Monday Google handled 49.2 percent of the country’s total — about 2.8 billion searches — a slight drop from its 49.4 percent share in June. … Nielsen/NetRatings reported a slight gain in July for the No. 2 search provider, Yahoo Inc., which inched up to 23.8 percent from 23 percent last month. [...]