comScore's U.S. search engine share for January 2016 is out, and it shows a fairly stable status for the major players, except that the number of searches is slightly up, and the search share reflected in that. Only AOL Inc shows a decline.
Google sites once again dominate at 63.8%, with Microsoft sites at 21.3%, Yahoo sites at 12.4%, unchanged since the previous month of December 2015.
Of course, these figures are desktop only, and it'd be interesting to compare mobile search share.
http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Market-Rankings/comScore-Releases-January-2016-US-Desktop-Search-Engine-Rankings
comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report* (Desktop Only)
January 2016 vs. December 2015
Total U.S. – Desktop Home and Work Locations Source: comScore Search |
Core Search Entity | Explicit Core Search Share (%) |
Dec-15 | Jan-16 | Point Change |
Total Explicit Core Search | 100.0% | 100.0% | N/A |
Google Sites | 63.8% | 63.8% | 0.0 |
Microsoft Sites | 21.1% | 21.3% | 0.2 |
Yahoo Sites | 12.4% | 12.4% | 0.0 |
Ask Network | 1.6% | 1.7% | 0.1 |
AOL, Inc. | 1.0% | 0.9% | -0.1 |
*“Explicit Core Search” excludes contextually driven searches that do not reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.