In December 2008, Americans conducted 12.7 billion core searches, up 3% from November 2008, says ComScore, Inc., the leader in evaluating the digital world, in its today released monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace.
According to U.S. Core Search Rankings, Google Sites topped the U.S. core search market during the last month (December 2008) with 63.5 percent of the searches conducted, unchanged from November, followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.5%), Microsoft Sites (8.3%), Ask Network (3.9%) and AOL LLC (3.8%).