Google Sites led the US explicit core search* market in December 2010, accounting for 66.6% of total searches conducted during the month, followed by Yahoo Sites with 16.0% and Microsoft Sites with 12.0%, according to data from comScore qSearch.

Ask and AOL rounded out the top 5 with 3.5% and 1.9%, respectively.


Total Core Search Queries

More than 16.4 billion explicit core searches were conducted in December, up 3% from November. Google Sites ranked first with 11.0 billion searches, up 3% from the previous month, followed by Yahoo Sites with 2.6 billion and Microsoft Sites with 2.0 billion (up 4%).

Ask accounted for 575 million explicit core searches, followed by AOL with 213 million, down 5% from November.

Total Core Search

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