ComScore published their June rankings for the top five search engines, with Google taking 61.8 percent of US searches (down slightly from 61.8 percent in May). Yahoo drew 20.6 percent of June’s searches, down 0.3 percent from May. Microsoft pulled in 8.5 percent, also down from May by 0.7 percent. Ask Network 4.3 percent, and AOL LLC 4.1 percent.

Americans conducted 11.5 billion searches at the core search engines, representing a 7-percent increase versus May. Google Sites handled more than 7 billion core searches (up 6 percent from May), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.4 billion (up 9 percent), and Microsoft Sites with more than 1 billion (up 15 percent).

Based on the five major search engines including partner searches and cross-channel searches. Searches for mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on the core domain of the five search engines are not included in the core search numbers.

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