Chicago (IL) - ComScore’s most U.S. search engine Rankings for August 2008 suggest that YouTube achieves a greater level of search traffic than Yahoo. If you were to consider YouTube’s integrated search a regular search engine, you would have to hand Google the top two spots for search engine traffic. In combination, Google has about four times the search traffic of Yahoo and more than ten times the search traffic of Microsoft’s MSN sites.

The report detailed a total of 11.7 billion core searches made by Americans, and saw Google extend its search market share by 1.1 points to 63%. The second spot went to Yahoo (19.6%), Microsoft came in third (8.3%). Ask.com and AOL were fourth and fifth respectively, both with less than 5% of the market share.

A bit further down in the report, there is a surprising piece of news, hidden in ComScore’s “Expanded Search Query Report.” Google attained the highest number of search queries in the month of August – 7.6 billion. But the second spot is now held by YouTube 2.6 billion. YouTube not only pushed Google beyond 10 billion searches for the first time, but also replaced Yahoo as the world’s second largest search service: Yahoo’s traffic dropped by 5% from July 2008 to 2.4 billion.

The entire search traffic of Microsoft sites is estimated by ComScore at 1.0 billion searches.

Other sites to rank on the expanded search list include Ebay (434 million searches), Craigslist (335 million), Facebook (186 million) and MySpace (585 million).

As a Chicago locksmith I wonder if people are looking for services on YouTube?

Oct 17, 2008 01:30     

As a Chicago locksmith, it seems kind of strange that people will go looking for services, such as a lockout service, on YouTube. Your-Locksmith.com is one of the domains we advertise, and we get zero traffic thru ads on Youtube...
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YouTube is Sad, They Support The Obamination of Desolation

Oct 17, 2008 06:21     

YouTube is Sad, They Support The Obamination of Desolation. Yes Obama is the Beast mentioned in the Bible, we can slow him down, vote Republican!!!
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It's Google

Oct 17, 2008 09:06     

Youtube is under Google so obviously it's search will simulate Google search by using the same code of Google's(i think so) with slightly different criteria ...so y rate it under separate search engine?
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i guess you people have misunderstood the article. ...

Oct 18, 2008 19:26     

i guess you people have misunderstood the article. ok, the title was a bit misleading, but the reporters are doing that to convince readers to read the article. the article says "If you were to consider YouTube’s integrated search a regular search engine", which means it's not a universal search engine. it's a search engine for videos. get it. but if you consider the searches of videos done in youtube, it is higher than the number of searches in yahoo. ok. i hope you get it and don't comment on nonsense.

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10 billions ?

Oct 20, 2008 03:01     

Google YouTube hold 63% in the total of 11.7, how do they go beyond 10 billion ?
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The Most Popular Search Engines.

Nov 17, 2008 13:17     

All the best search engines piled into one. Including Google, Yahoo, sport search engines, science and medical search engines, encylopedia search engines, government and legal search engines, education search engines, news search engines, meta search engines..... http://www.allthebestsearchengines.blogspot.com
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WOW

Nov 27, 2008 09:03     

WOW, this is really a wow. But you know what, Yahoo is the most popular period when it comes to American audience. And we are basically the ones running the show. Us American audience allows Yahoo to ask more from advertisers. So Yahoo is in good shape. Regards: rizzy http://twitter.com/rizzy81
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Google is best

Apr 04, 2009 09:00     

I think google is always the best option than you tube and yahoo. http://www.hindlist.com free classifieds website
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