Outdated Confidence: medium
Source found and quoted correctly, but old enough that the market has changed.
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.
What the source says
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.
comScore (via TechCrunch) — ComScore: YouTube Now 25 Percent Of All Google Searches (Dec. 18, 2008)
- Commonly cited as
- "YouTube is the second biggest search engine after Google"
- True origin
- comScore (via TechCrunch) — ComScore: YouTube Now 25 Percent Of All Google Searches (Dec. 18, 2008)
- Type
- Stat check: A widely repeated statistic traced back to its origin.
- Year
- 2008
- Data as of
- comScore US search data, November 2008
- Last checked
- Method & sample
- comScore qSearch panel count of US search queries by site, November 2008, as reported by TechCrunch.
- Drift between quote and source
- 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