It was pretty much status quo in terms if search engine usage for users in the US as comScore released their report of US search usage data for December 2008. Yahoo was the only search engine to experience an increase, albeit a slight one.
comScore Core Search Report*
December 2008 vs. November 2008
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore qSearch 2.0
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Core Search Entity
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Share of Searches (%)
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Nov-08
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Dec-08
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Point Change
Dec-08 vs. Nov-08
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Total Core Search
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100.0
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100.0
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N/A
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Google Sites
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63.5
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63.5
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0.0
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Yahoo! Sites
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20.4
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20.5
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0.1
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Microsoft Sites
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8.3
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8.3
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0.0
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Ask Network
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4.0
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3.9
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-0.1
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AOL LLC
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3.8
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3.8
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0.0
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Full report can be found here.
Labels: search engine market share
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