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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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Ask.com throws in the towel
The once prolific Ask.com has announced that it will no longer be operating as a search engine. Ask.com, formerly known as Ask Jeeves, was launched in 1996 and was immensely popular, handling upwards of 2 million search queries a day at it’s peak. However, the reign of Ask.com was short lived as Google began to grow. As Google took hold of the search market, Ask.com’s market share plummeted, as did…
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Eric Schmidt outlines a speedy future for Google
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been speaking today at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) consumer electronics event in Berlin and has been outlining a future where search is super fast, highly personalised and omniscient. Arguably the strongest emphasis in the presentation is the issue of speed, with Schmidt stating: "Our new definition of Google, we’re trying to get you something fast – never underestimate the importance of fast." Some of this…
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Google’s contribution to the UK election
There has been a lot of talk over the past weeks / months how the UK election 2010 has been the first ‘internet’ election (or even the first mumsnet election). In our humble opinion, it has been slightly over stated and we would suggest that the TV debates (‘old school media’) were far more influential overall, although the surprising failure of the Liberal Democrat party does call this into question….
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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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Google Strikes Deal with Twitter
Earlier this week it was announced that Google has finally made a deal with Twitter, to enable them to show Twitter updates in it’s search results pages. Microsoft and Twitter reached an agreement sometime ago, so Bing is already showing Tweets as results on it’s SERP’s and now Google has also managed to come to an arrangement with Twitter, meaning that in the coming months we will begin to see…
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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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Google becomes hot and trendy
Earlier this week Google launched it’s new search feature in it’s latest attempt at becoming more real-time, and providing it’s users with information about the hottest current events and topics. Twitter has become extremely successful over the years, allowing users to microblog or ‘Tweet’ within seconds about current topics, people and events, which is causing others to turn to Twitter to find the most real time information about these subjects….
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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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Yahoo! Launches New Web Search
Earlier this week, Yahoo! launched it’s new web search page, after conducting testing that started in August, with a selected number of users and it is now making the changes available to all users across the UK, US, France, Spain, Mexico and India. The new search page has been designed to help users to find what they are searching for more easily and make exploring the web a quicker and…
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