Trada, a Search Engine Marketing enabler, has raised $5.75 million from various sources including Google Ventures. Trada uses a crowd sourcing to make the job of creating SEM campaigns easier.
Trada Raises $5.75M From Google Ventures To Crowdsource Search Engine Marketing.
Twitter is reporting that the company is handling 800 million queries per day, up 33% from their last public report in April. By comparison, comScore reporting that Yahoo did 9.4 billion queries in December.
Twitter search queries up 33 percent from April to 800 million per day | VentureBeat.
Bing captured 10% of the search market in June, up 7% over May. Google still has a commanding lead with 72% (down 1%) and Yahoo stayed the same at 14%.
Bing share of searches increases 7 percent for June 2010.
Mapquest, once the leading online map service, has relaunched with more features, less ads and a focus on local search. Google Maps passed up Mapquest in terms of features and usage back in early 2009.
Mapquest Introduces New Look, New Capabilities.
Google is buying air travel booking service, ITA Software, for about $700 million. This acquisition better enables Google to compete in the lucrative travel vertical, where other search services, such as Bing, have been investing heavily.
Google Makes Its Travel Search Move: Buys ITA Software For $700 Million | paidContent.
Hitwise, a leading global online competitive intelligence service, announced that for May 2010, Google had 72.17% of the US search market, up from 71.40% in April. Both Bing & Yahoo showed slight month over month loses, but Bing continues to gain on Yahoo.
Google share of searches at 72 percent for May 2010.
Google is reportedly working on a new paid content platform for publishers, dubbed Newspass. Such a system could help ailing news services that are craving more online revenues to offset their declining print revenue, such as Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal.
A Google Paid Content System For Publishers May Be Coming By Year-End | paidContent.
Yummly, a powerful new recipe search engine, has accumulated over 500,000 recipes across the web. Yummly is betting that their advanced search engine will help it grab market share from existing recipe sites like All Recipes, Epicurious, Food Network, Food.com and Big Oven.
Yummly’s Semantic Search Engine Is The Ultimate Online Cookbook For Foodies.
Collecta, a real-time search company, has added a $4.7 million round on top of a previous $1.85 million round. Collecta delivers news feeds to partners such as CNET and MySpace.
Collecta Scores More Funding for Real-Time Search.
Facebook recently passed up Google for page view traffic in the US and it’s just a matter of time before it does this for visitor traffic too. A recent Hitwise report shows how social networks have already passed search engines in the UK, in terms of visitor traffic.
Social networks more popular than search engines in [...]