Utilizing its new qSearch 2.0 technique of computation,
Microsoft Office Professional 2007, ComScore has launched its globally search-activity stats for August. Microsoft is No. four inside the newest standings.(Just in case you were confused, as I was: This just isn't the Comscore Media Metrix (audience-measurement) Web traffic data. It appears to get the new and enhanced successor towards the search-engine market share data that ComScore now calls “online search exercise worldwide.)Of the 61 billion searches conducted worldwide two months ago, two.2 billion of them were conducted from Microsoft sites. Coming in at No. 1 had been Google sites,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, with 37.1 billion. Yahoo sites had been No. two with 8.5 billion, and at No. 3, Baidu.com, the Chinese search site,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, at 3.3 billion. The No. 5 player, NHN Corp. of Korea, was nipping at No. four Microsoft;s heels, with 2 billion searches in August.About 5 billion of Google;s searches came via YouTube.com, according to Comscore;s data, released on October 10.In August, Microsoft said it was in favor of the new qSearch 2.0 computational approach. Brad Goldberg,
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, General Manager of Search Marketing with Microsoft’s Search Business Unit,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, said at that time:“(T)he refinements comScore has instituted with qSearch two.0 are positive for the industry and advertisers, as its methodology more accurately measures lookup traffic sources that are core to customer engagement and enables advertisers to obtain the most out of lookup.”