Google Sees Its U.S. Search Market Share Jump a Full Point In May, Marking Tenth Consecutive Monthly Gain

RESTON, Va., – comScore Networks today released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines.  In May 2006, Google gained in search market share for the tenth consecutive month and maintained its status as market leader with 44.1 percent of searches conducted on its sites.  Yahoo! remained in second place with 27.9 percent, while MSN ranked third with 12.9 percent. 

             •         Americans conducted 7.4 billion searches online in May, up 12 percent from April. 

             •         Google Sites registered the most search queries performed with 3.3 billion, followed by
                 Yahoo! Sites (2.1 billion), MSN-Microsoft (963 million), Time-Warner Network (499 million),
                  and Ask Jeeves/Ask Network (392 million).

             •         MySpace.com maintained its 6^th place ranking with 53 million searches conducted on the
                  site in May,  increasing its market share to 0.7 percent.

             •         Google and Yahoo! once again dominated the toolbar search market, combining for more
                  than 95 percent of the market share in May.  Google grabbed 49.1 percent of toolbar
                  searches, while Yahoo! captured 46.2 percent.

For more information on comScore qSearch, please e-mail searchsolutions@comscore.com or call (650) 244-5412.

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In a related release.

Table 1: Top 10 Search Providers for May 2006, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)

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| Provider              |  Searches | YOY Growth | Share of Searches |

|                       |     (000) |            |                   |

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| Google Search         | 2,783,169 |        32% |             49.1% |

| Yahoo! Search         | 1,298,915 |        34% |             22.9% |

| MSN Search            |   600,820 |        42% |             10.6% |

| AOL Search            |   363,431 |        N/A |              6.4% |

| Ask.com Search        |   146,585 |        69% |              2.6% |

| My Way Search         |   129,270 |        67% |              2.3% |

| iWon Search           |    32,257 |        53% |              0.6% |

| Dogpile.com Search    |    29,416 |       -25% |              0.5% |

| EarthLink Search      |    27,488 |        -1% |              0.5% |

| SBC Yellow Pages      |    24,513 |       -21% |              0.4% |

| Search                |           |            |                   |

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Source: Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search, June 2006

Note: Due to a methodology change, year-over-year growth for AOL Search is unavailable.

Example:  An estimated 2.8 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 49 percent of all search queries conducted during the given time period.

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