Google's Comscore Lead Unchanged In June - Bing gains but from who?

[walkman]

Monthly figures from the industry researcher show that Google's search market share was 65.5% in June, while Yahoo's share remained at 15.9%. Microsoft's sites, including its Bing search engine, came in at 14.4%, up from 14.1% the prior month.

Market share for the fourth-largest search engine--IAC/InterActiveCorp.'s (IACI) Ask.com--was unchanged at 2.9%. AOL Inc.'s (AOL) share declined 0.1 percentage point to 1.4%.

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[tedster]

The Bing gains could come from rounding, I think.

I always thought it was funny that AOL is not considered a "Google site" in these Comscore numbers.

[walkman]

Good point a 0.1% here and 0.2% there it adds up.

Aol is going to benefit once the contract with G runs out. Since they have many G search dependent properties I'm almost certain they'll keep Google but get a better deal since Microsoft will want to pay big bucks for that 1.4%.

[aristotle]

For some unknown reason, my sites have always gotten a significantly greater percentage of traffic from Google than these ComScore reports would indicate. For traffic from the main search engines, so far this month the breakdown for my two largest sites is:

Site A:
-- Google 81.6%
-- Yahoo 7.3%
-- Bing 7.1%

Site B:
-- Google 79.7%
-- Yahoo 7.6%
-- Bing 7.9%

For both sites, the rankings for the major keywords are about the same in all three engines, so that isn't the explanation. Possibly it has something to do with the fact that these are non-commercial informational sites. Anyway, Google has always supplied a high percentage of the traffic for all my sites. But I don't know the reason for it.