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  "id": "youtube-second-largest-search-engine",
  "slug": "youtube-second-largest-search-engine",
  "url": "https://groundedkit.com/claims/youtube-second-largest-search-engine/",
  "api_url": "https://groundedkit.com/api/claims/youtube-second-largest-search-engine.json",
  "claim": "YouTube is the world's second-largest search engine",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"YouTube is the second biggest search engine after Google\"",
  "verdict": "outdated",
  "verdict_definition": "Source found and quoted correctly, but old enough that the market has changed.",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "rating": {
    "value": 3,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "comScore (via TechCrunch)",
    "title": "ComScore: YouTube Now 25 Percent Of All Google Searches (Dec. 18, 2008)",
    "year": "2008"
  },
  "quote": "If it were a standalone site, YouTube would be the second largest search engine after Google. More searches are done through YouTube than through Yahoo, which has been the case for the past few months.",
  "method": "comScore qSearch panel count of US search queries by site, November 2008, as reported by TechCrunch.",
  "drift": [
    "Age: based on 2008 US query counts",
    "US only, not 'the world'",
    "Compared site searches when Yahoo was the main rival; no recent comparable ranking exists"
  ],
  "interest": "n/a",
  "safe_rephrasing": "In 2008 comScore data, YouTube handled more US searches than Yahoo, making it the second-largest search site after Google at the time; there is no current measurement behind the 'second-largest search engine' line.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "TechCrunch — comScore: YouTube now 25% of Google searches (2008)",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2008/12/18/comscore-youtube-now-25-percent-of-all-google-searches/",
      "primary": false
    }
  ],
  "kind": "stat_check",
  "as_of": "comScore US search data, November 2008",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}