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September 2011 search engine market share – Google regains momentum
A month ago we published a blog post documenting the U.S. search engine market share data for August 2011, based on data from comScore. The information shared within that post was interesting as it showed that Google’s share of the U.S. search engine market had dipped to under 65 percent for the first time in two years. However, a month on and it looks like normal business has been resumed,…
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Blekko announces impressive milestone
It has been well documented this week that Google and Bing are at war. Again. Google accused Bing of ‘copying’ its search results, Bing denied it, things got heated, the saga continues. You can read about that story here. In the midst of the drama, search engine Blekko has announced an impressive milestone – in January, the search engine received over 30 million search queries. This equals about 15 search…
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Yahoo! UK soon to be powered by Bing
Last week, Yahoo and Bing announced that they had migrated over the organic results in Australia, Brazil and Mexico to Bing. Yahoo and Bing joined forces in 2009 to form a search alliance in a bid to knock Google from the number one spot. Kartik Ramakrishnan, Vice President of Yahoo! Search Transition blogged; “The Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance team has reached yet another important milestone today. As planned, we…
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Search engine market shares around the world
We recently reported the web browser usage share statistics for November 2010 based on research by Net Applications. While in the statistics groove, we were interested to see that Econsultancy has created a very nice infographic showing search engine market shares across 10 countries around the world. Econsultancy blogged; “We were conducting research into search engine market shares around the world and couldn't find a source that could give us details for…
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Is this Google’s annus horriblis?
It would be foolish to suggest that Google is in trouble, but there have been a few ventures that have not worked out in the way that the search behemoth would have hoped and, just as Apple has experienced with the Iphone 4 launch, it is clear that you cannot assume success in an era where users vote with their feet (or mice?). We should point out that the title…
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Yahoo! and bing are now officially bed partners in the US
The much anticipated ‘joining of forces’ between Yahoo! and Microsoft is starting to make itself felt in the U.S. as Yahoo! announces that it is testing organic and paid search listings from Microsoft for up to 25% of searches. Most users will be unaware of where the data is actually coming from as the page layout is not changing but it will be interesting to see if the quality of…
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Bing Launches New Search Features
Microsoft has announced the latest changes to it’s new search platform, Bing, in its latest attempt to improve its search results and gain market share on Google. Microsoft has been listening to its customers’ feedback and assessing user trends and has therefore implemented new features to make Bing easier to use and more convenient by adding previews of sites, putting more emphasis on its localised results and much more. The…
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Has Bing’s Market Share Peaked?
According to the lastest report released by comScore this week, it would appear that Bing’s growth is gradually slowing down, whilst Google’s is on its way up again. Does this mean that Microsoft’s share in the market has peaked or can it continue to grow and really pose a threat to Google? comScore’s September report shows that Google’s share in the search engine market is now rapidly approaching the 65…
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Bing’s slowly gaining on Google’s Market Share
Earlier this week ComScore released it’s monthly qSearch analysis report, conducted on the U.S Search Market throughout August and it shows some interesting results. The report shows that last month there were 13.9 billion core searches performed in the U.S alone, with Google’s share of that figure being 64.9%, Yahoo!’s 19.3% and Microsoft’s 9.3%. When comparing these figures to the previous month, it shows that whilst Yahoo!’s share remains exactly…
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Bing Results to Include Tweets
A week or so ago, Bing revealed that it is coming up to date and will now be including real-time results in it's SERP's on a selection of searches that are performed on their new and improved search platform. Since Twitter was launched, it has continued to grow at a phenomenal rate with users loving the concept of knowing what others are doing and being keep up to date in…
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