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Twitter Queries Way Up

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.

Posted by admin on July 12th, 2010 under Search Engines, social networks Tags: , ,  •  Comments Off

Bing Gains More Marketshare

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.

Posted by admin on July 12th, 2010 under Search Engines Tags: , ,  •  Comments Off

Google Holding Search Market Share, Bing Gaining on Yahoo

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.

Posted by admin on June 23rd, 2010 under Search Engines Tags: , ,  •  Comments Off

Demand Media’s Bradford on Sales Stragegy

Ad Age recently posted a Q&A session with Demand Media’s Chief Revenue Officer, Joanne Bradford. Joanne, who recently left Yahoo to join Demand Media, discusses the need for Demand to build out a bigger sales organization and create greater awareness in the advertising industry. She goes on to say that the companies goal is to [...]

Posted by admin on June 7th, 2010 under Business People, Content, Websites Tags: , , ,  •  Comments Off

What Should Yahoo Do With Associated Content?

paidContent has a post today on Yahoo & and their recent acquisition of Associated Content suggesting that they, and their competitors, Demand Media and AOL’s Seed, work on improving the quality by 1) investing in a vertical approach, and 2) investing in tools and functionality that compliment their articles (e.g. quotes for business articles, sports [...]

Posted by admin on June 7th, 2010 under Acquisitions, Content, SEO, Websites Tags: , , , ,  •  Comments Off

Bing Continues to Make Gains in Search

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% [...]

Posted by admin on March 9th, 2010 under SEO, Search Engines, Traffic Growth, Websites Tags: , , , ,  •  Comments Off

Panoramio Co-Founder Leaves Google, Joins Askaro

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 [...]

Posted by admin on January 20th, 2010 under Business People, Local, Websites Tags: , , , ,  •  Comments Off

Bing’s Market Share is Growing

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 [...]

Posted by admin on January 15th, 2010 under Search Engines Tags: , , , ,  •  Comments Off