Search Engine Statistics
February 28th, 2007
The latest figures from representatives of major ratings and traffic analysis services confirm Google’s dominance of both the UK and global search engine markets.
Search Engine Watch has a round up of the latest search engine statistics presented by representatives from Hitwise, Neilsen/NetRatings and others at the recent Search Engine Strategies conference in London.
Alex Burmaster, European … Read full article>
Microsoft announces the launch of ‘Live Search Box’
November 1st, 2006
Hot on the heels of the Google Co-op announcement, Microsoft has announced the ability to add a ‘Live Search Box’ to your site.
We haven’t tested the new feature yet but it looks as though it should be very easy to do. The results are returned in a dynamically generated floating tag, which should help website … Read full article>
UK Search Engine Statistics
October 13th, 2006
New figures have been published by Nielsen / NetRatings which show that Google has increased its market share of the UK search market, with 68% of UK click-throughs in August, a 2.8% rise from February.
Yahoo!, in second place, managed only a 0.1% growth in the same period to reach a market share of 9.1%.
Ask.com, MSN … Read full article>
MSN adCenter set to launch this week
August 14th, 2006
According to this post, it looks as though the much anticipated MSN PPC solution is about to officially launch in the UK.
Having been involved with some early trials of the new solution, we are eagerly anticipating this launch. Not only is the interface a huge improvement on the previous Overture solution used by msn.co.uk, the … Read full article>
Microsoft Live Search
March 9th, 2006
Microsoft is launching a new search engine that it claims will help searchers find information more quickly and be able to view it more easily.
Making its debut on Wednesday, Windows Live Search is the latest move from Microsoft in a significant strategy shift towards provision of internet-based software and services.
Windows Live Search will provide the … Read full article>
Search Engine Comparison Study
March 9th, 2006
An interesting study into the comparative performance of leading search engines was published a couple of weeks ago and provides some interesting reading. The report (pdf) is available here.
The study was undertaken in Dec 2005 by students at the University of Provence in France and used Google, Yahoo, MSN, Exalead, Voila and Dir.com as the search … Read full article>
