engine - 3:52 pm on Aug 20, 2012 (gmt 0)

comScore: July 2012 U.S. Search Shares, Google 66.8, Bing To 15.7 pct [comscore.com]

Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in July with 66.8 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 15.7 percent (up 0.1 percentage points) and Yahoo! Sites with 13.0 percent. Ask Network accounted for 3.1 percent of explicit core searches (up 0.1 percentage points), followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.5 percent.

17.7 billion explicit core searches were conducted in July (up 3 percent), with Google Sites ranking first with 11.8 billion (up 3 percent). Microsoft Sites ranked second with 2.8 billion searches (up 4 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.3 billion (up 3 percent), Ask Network with 548 million (up 6 percent) and AOL, Inc. with 264 million.

Hitwise U.S. stats for July [webmasterworld.com]