Online Marketing News Archive

A couple of weeks ago we announced the launch of the new Search Engine or ‘Decision’ Engine, as they like to call it, from Microsoft, that they have chosen to call Bing.
Over the years, Microsoft has launched many new versions of it’s search engine, Bing being it’s fourth attempt, to try and challenge the Google’s … Read full article>

Last week, we wrote about the hype around Microsoft’s new Search Engine and the speculation about it’s new and improved name and we can now announce that it is, as predicted, going to be ‘Bing’.
This new product, that they are referring to as a ‘Decision’ Engine, is Microsoft’s latest attempt in it’s battle against the … Read full article>

Over time Yahoo! have continuously been updating their homepage to try and make it as user friendly as possible in an attempt to attract the attention of Internet users across the world, and this week they have shared their latest design:

The new design is being launched across both Mobile and PC homepages and is said … Read full article>

After the one year anniversary of Yahoo’s Search Monkey project, Yahoo have announced that they plan to increase their search efforts and base their search feature around structured data.
The head of Yahoo Labs and Yahoo Search Strategy, Prabhakar Raghavan, has stressed Yahoo’s desire to not only see the web as a group of ‘documents’ or … Read full article>

Search is fast catching up with email as the most popular online activity, according to a recent US survey.
According to the report, from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the percentage of web users who regularly consult search engines has grown from a third in 2002 to 49% this year.
The most popular internet application … Read full article>

With Google so dominant in the search market in both the US and Europe, marketers have been lamenting the lack of a rival to the search engine’s dominance of the industry.
Google’s market share in the US was almost 70% in June, while in the UK this dominance is even more marked, with recent Hitwise stats … Read full article>

True Knowledge, an innovative search engine being developed in the UK, has just announced the receipt of a second round of funding, worth $4m (£2m), bringing the total raised so far by the company to $5.4m (£2.8m).
The funding will be used to expand the company’s staff and further develop the company’s technology, which it has … Read full article>

Cuil launched its search engine this week, claiming that it indexes more web pages than Google, Yahoo etc (120 billion pages) and can also do this faster and cheaper.
Cuil (pronounced ‘cool’) was developed by Stanford professor Tom Costello and his wife Anna Patterson, a former Google search architect. The staff at the search engine also … Read full article>

Google has been talking about the size of its web index on its official blog this week, as the search engine has reached a milestone of 1 trillion web pages.
This is the number of unique URLs that Google knows of – the search engine does not necessarily make all of these URLs searchable, as they … Read full article>

Google continues to dominate the search engine market in the US, and managed to increase its share by another percentage point in June, meaning it now has an almost 70% share of searches.
While Google’s share has been increasing, that of its rivals has decreased, especially when you look at the year on year figures.
According to … Read full article>