Comscore Time Again: Google Query Growth Solid, Yahoo Crappy

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The first half of the monthly Comscore ritual is complete, and the results shouldn't trigger any alarms. This evening, Comscore released its April query share report. JP Morgan analyst Imran Khan reports that there were no major surprises:

  • Google gained share: 61.6% of US queries, up from 59.8% in March--the first time Google's US share has exceeded 60%. Google's queries also grew 31% year-over-year, consistent with the growth rate of the past few months.
  • Everyone else lost share: Yahoo dropped almost another full point, to 20.4%. Query volume shrank for the third consecutive month, down -1.5%. Slowly but surely, Yahoo's query share is heading toward zero. Microsoft, meanwhile, also lost share, but at least its queries grew year over year--up 9.4%. Ask? Don't ask. Down to 4.3%. AOL dropped, too, to 4.6%.
  • Overall query volume grew at a steady 18%, the same rate as the last few months.
  • Yahoo's continued loss of share is not good news as it tries to cut a deal with Microsoft. Microsoft's continued loss of share is not good news as it panics at the thought of a Google-Yahoo tie-up.

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As a reminder, this report measures U.S. queries, not worldwide queries or U.S. paid clicks. The Comscore reports that set off the panic last quarter looked at U.S. paid clicks. Comscore will likely publish its April paid click report later this week.

Not yet bored to death by Comscore defending the accuracy of its data after getting blamed (unfairly) for costing investors millions? Then watch Comscore chairman Gian Fulgoni on Cramer here. Or just read the post below.

See Also: The Real Google-Comscore Scandal: Investors Who Won't Take Responsibility For Themselves



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jay said:
I love Comscore....mo money ya , 10 for one split here we come googieeeeeee.

Bjorn Tipling (URL) said:
Barry Diller has said Ask numbers are down because we're advertising less. Revenue is up. You even blogged about this. And hitwise has actually said our marketshare increased. Also, I noticed a big and red Ask.com ad on your homepage banner. :P

questionOR said:
Does this make sense to anybody? This would imply that Google's revenue-per-query (assuming they make virtually all of their money on these queries) is:

14B queries in Q1
$3.12B in Google sites revenue

This equates to $.22 per query.

Is this right? Am I missing something?

XYZ said:
questionOR: yes, as Henry reminded, these are US only numbers, not worldwide..

Henry Blodget said:
They're also queries, not clicks. Vast majority of revenue comes from small percentage of queries.


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