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ComScore Search Engine Rankings Debut

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ComScore has unveiled the latest search engine rankings for August 2009. Over the month, Americans conducted 13.9 billion search queries. The lion's share of those searches were conducted at Google sites with 64.6% market share for Google sites.

Microsoft search landed 9.3% of the search market, less than a half of a percentage point gain compared to July. Yahoo held onto the second place in the search rankings with 19.3% of the market. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

ComScore Releases July 2009 Search Engine Rankings

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ComScore has announced the rankings for search engines for July 2009. There were almost 13.6 billion searches conducted in America over the month with Google sites accounting for 64.7% of all searches. Microsoft grew slightly with 8.9% of all searches for the month, a gain of half a percent.

Yahoo was still in second place for the month with 19.3% of all searches with the Ask network bringing up fourth with 3.9% and AOL with 3.1% of search traffic. Google's chunk of search traffic was down slightly from 65% the previous month as was Yahoo. Read more

Posted on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

ComScore Says Lower Income Families Turning to iPhone

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ComScore has announced some information on the demographics of iPhone users. The report says that 43% of iPhone users make over $100,000 annually, the strongest growth in users is from people earning under the median household income.

iPhone adaption has risen 48% since June 2008 among those earning between $25,000 and $50,000, three times the growth rate of those earning more than $100,000 per year. Growth in the same period from users making under $25,000 per year is 16%. ComScore thinks the growth in relatively low-income users is due to the consolidation of multiple devices like computers and home phones into one iPhone. Read more

Posted on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:30:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Huge Amounts of People Search for iPhone Info Says ComScore

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In the months and weeks leading up to a new announcement from Apple it’s hard to get away from the news. Certainly the biggest announcement from Apple in recent months is the iPhone 3G coming next month. ComScore says that 7 million searches for the Apple iPhone were made in April.

ComScore says that the biggest search term was iPhone generating 1.5 million searches in April. The next two spots were iPhone update with 151,000 searches, iPhone 2.0 with 75,000 searches and iPhone 3G with 60,000 searches. Most of the searches that generated click-thrus were with Google says ComScore. Read more

Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:28:21 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

comScore Says Online Spending is Way Up Compared to Last Year

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According to comScore, online retailers have had a banner year in 2007. Holiday retail spending has surpassed $22 billion, an 18% increase versus last year.

Retailers still have another week of shopping to continue the sales growth for pre-Christmas spending. According to comScore spending from November 1st to December 14th last year was $19.15 billion and this year spending for the same period was $22.67 billion. Read more

Posted on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:46:01 CST | by Shane McGlaun