comScore Releases March 2012 U.S. Search Engine Rankings; Google Sties Leading

comScore, Inc. SCOR today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites GOOG led the explicit core search market in March with 66.4 percent of search queries conducted. Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in March with 66.4 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites MSFT with 15.3 percent and Yahoo! Sites YHOO with 13.7 percent. Ask Network accounted for 3.0 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. AOL with 1.6 percent. 18.4 billion explicit core searches were conducted in March, with Google Sites ranking first with 12.2 billion (up 4 percent). Microsoft Sites ranked second with 2.8 billion searches (up 5 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.5 billion (up 4 percent), Ask Network with 555 million (up 4 percent) and AOL, Inc. with 285 million (up 7 percent).