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 [...]
Hitwise, a web analytics company, today announced that Facebook surpassed Google to become the most visited website in the US last week, according to their tracking system.
This is the first time that Facebook has held the #1 spot for an entire week. They had previously become the top site for a few single days over [...]
comScore just came out with their February search report and Bing captured 11.5% of the search market, up from 11.3% in January and 10.7% in December and 8% last May.
In a similar pattern to prior months, Yahoo lost market share and Google maintained their market share.
If Bing’s market share continues to grow at a 2% [...]
Barclays Capital recently came out with their February “Internet Data Book.” The report provides up-to-date statistics on the Internet industry overall, and more specifically on the 13 companies in their coverage universe and covers financial metrics and valuation, Internet usage, online advertising, mobile, e-commerce, online travel, and company-specific information and models.
What is interesting about this [...]
Google has added reporting to their Local Business Center (LBC) service.
The service is free to use for local businesses and allows them to update their business information that is displayed in Google’s search results. This combined with the reporting service, which allows them to see what keywords their customers searched to find them and where [...]
According to comScore, Bing captured 10.7% of all search queries in December, up from 8% last May. Meanwhile, Yahoo lost about as much as Bing gained over the same time period to end up at 17%. Google remained relatively flat at 65%.
If this trend continues at the same rate, Bing will pass Yahoo to become [...]