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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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August 2011 search engine share data, Google shows slight decline
Latest statistics from comScore show that Google’s share of the U.S. search engine market has dipped for the first time since September 2009. Despite still dominating the market, Google’s share fell slightly in August 2011 when compared to July 2011, from 65.1% to 64.8%. In contrast, Yahoo! gained 2 percentage points in August to claim a total of 16.3% of the market share in the U.S. Bing, which saw no…
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Yahoo! launces Search Direct, Google Instant alternative
Yahoo has launched new product called ‘Search Direct’. Much like Google Instant, results are populated live in front of you as you type in the search box. Like so: and: So what’s the difference between this and Google Instant?, you may ask. Yahoo claims that Search Direct aims to provide users with answers, as apposed to links. When asked, Shashi Seth, Yahoo SVP of Search Products said, “They’re very different…
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Yahoo! turns 16
On March 1 2011, Yahoo! turned 16 years old. A recent Yahoo! blog post took a look back at the last 16 years and it’s fair to say, it’s come a long way. It all started in February 1994 in when two students – David Filo and Jerry Yang, decided to build a guide to the web as a way of keeping track of their personal interests. These lists grew…
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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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Google returns better results for music videos, including competitors
A blog posted by Google on Friday afternoon revealed that it has begun showing links to different video sites and search engines in its music related search results, not just YouTube. In an effort to provide users with better video results, the videos will include clear text indicating the length of the video, the album and the year it was published. For example, we searched for Green Day, and got…
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Quora – the next big thing or just a lot of Q&A?
Q. What is Quora? A. Quora is socially fuelled question and answer site that was founded in June 2009 by former Facebook executives Charlie Cheever and Adam D'Angelo. It went public in June 2010. Questions are entered in to the search box and answered by the Quora community. Answers to questions are prioritised by how useful they are and the site uses Twitter-style following to track the best contributors. The…
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Yahoo! Rich Search Assist – it’s not the same as Google Instant, honest
Last week Google launched Google Instant Preview, so it comes as little surprise that Yahoo! has also announced that they’re testing something new. ‘Rich Search Assist’ is the latest innovation from Yahoo! that promises to 'change the way you consume information'. Much like Google Instant, the new feature automatically shows results in the top half of the page as you type. Like so; Ethan Batraski, Group Product Manager at Yahoo!…
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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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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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