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Global Search Market Draws More Than 100 Billion Searches Per Month

August 31, 2009

- Google Sites Leads Global Search Market with 67 Percent Market Share

RESTON, Virginia, August 31 /PRNewswire/ -- comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world today released a study of the global search market showing that more than 113 billion searches were conducted in July 2009, representing a 41-percent increase versus year ago. Google Sites attracted significantly more searches than any other engine with 76.7 billion searches conducted, or 67.5 percent market share. Yahoo! Sites ranked second worldwide with 8.9 billion searches (7.8 percent share), followed closely by Chinese search engine Baidu with 8 billion searches (7.0 percent share). Most of the top search properties worldwide experienced significant growth in search query volume versus last year, with Russian search engine Yandex growing at the fastest rate (94 percent) among the top ten.

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      Worldwide Search Market Overview
      July 2009 vs. July 2008
      Total Worldwide - Age 15+, Home/Work Locations
      Source: comScore qSearch
      ------------------------
                                                   Searches (MM)
                                                   ------------
                                    July 2008       July 2009       Percent
                                                                     Change
                                  -------------     ---------      ----------
    Total Internet                     80,554        113,685             41%
    --------------                     ------        -------             --
    Google Sites                       48,666         76,684             58%
    ------------                       ------         ------             --
    Yahoo! Sites                        8,689          8,898              2%
    ------------                        -----          -----              -
    Baidu.com Inc.                      7,413          7,976              8%
    --------------                      -----          -----              -
    Microsoft Sites                     2,349          3,317             41%
    ---------------                     -----          -----             --
    eBay                                1,223          1,723             41%
    ----                                -----          -----             --
    NHN Corporation                     1,243          1,526             23%
    ---------------                     -----          -----             --
    Ask Network                           929          1,291             39%
    -----------                           ---          -----             --
    Yandex                                663          1,290             94%
    ------                                ---          -----             --
    AOL LLC                             1,148          1,023            -11%
    -------                             -----          -----            ---
    Facebook.com                          743            879             18%
    ------------                          ---            ---             --

Europe Accounts for Most Searches, but Latin America Highest in Searches per Searcher

The dynamics of search behavior vary considerably across different parts of the world. Among the five global regions, Europe accounted for the highest share of searches at 32.1 percent, followed by Asia Pacific (30.8 percent) and North America (22.1 percent). Notably, Latin America exhibited the heaviest search behavior per person with an average of 13 search usage days in July and 130 searches per searcher. Europe had the second highest overall search volume per person (117 searches per searcher) while North America exhibited the second heaviest frequency (12.5 search usage days per searcher).

    
      Worldwide Search Market Overview by Region
      July 2009
      Total Worldwide - Age 15+, Home/Work Locations
      Source: comScore qSearch
      ------------------------
                           Searches      Share (%)   Search     Searches 
                             (MM)          of       Usage Days    Per
                                        Searches      Per       Searcher
                                                     Searcher
                          ----------  ---------    ------------ ----------


    Worldwide               113,685     100.0%       11.0       103.3
    ---------               -------     -----        ----       -----
    Europe                   36,446      32.1%       11.8       116.9
    ------                   ------      ----        ----       -----
    Asia Pacific             35,001      30.8%        9.3        84.7
    ------------             ------      ----         ---        ----
    North America            25,095      22.1%       12.5       110.6
    -------------            ------      ----        ----       -----
    Latin America            10,524       9.3%       13.0       130.4
    -------------            ------       ---        ----       -----
    Middle East - Africa      6,619       5.8%       10.5        97.3
    --------------------      -----       ---        ----        ----

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