Posts Tagged ‘google’

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.

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.

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 [...]

Panoramio co-founder, Eduardo Manchón, announced his departure from Google today and simultaneously announced that he is joining hyperlocal Q&A startup Askaro.com.
Askaro’s hyperlocal spin on Q&A is an interesting strategy to compete in a big market where sites like Answers.com and Yahoo Answers pull in huge visitor traffic. But in a category this big, there is [...]

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 [...]