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Yandex, the dominating search engine on the Russian market, boasts record revenue for 2010. This while it's already significant market share continues to grow. The company made no mention of profitability, but Yandex is planning a possible 2011 initial public offering. Revenue increased 43 percent in the last ye... |
19 January 2011
10:38 GMT |
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Google's move to pull out of the search market in China was seen as suicidal at the time, but there were some that argued that Google may be hit that hard financially, partly because the market is still small. And that seems to be the case, Google has managed to get back some search ad share in the fourth quarte... |
19 January 2011
06:19 GMT |
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Search trends haven't changed much in the final month of 2010, mirroring the moves from the entire year. Yahoo lost market share, Bing gained a small slice and Google basically stood flat. The exact numbers differ, but the trends are the same both with Hitwise and with comScore data."Google accounted for 69.67 p... |
14 January 2011
16:28 GMT |
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Spam or junk web pages designed to drive traffic and filled with ads are a reality most users face each day. For those that know better, the telltale signs are obvious most of the times, but you still get fooled every once in a while, even if it's for a few seconds. And for most people, who are not heavy interne... |
10 January 2011
05:29 GMT |
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With the year coming to an end, we've seen all manner of search engines highlight the top queries and trends of the year. TorrentFreak focused on the BitTorrent scene. With data from KickassTorrents, one of the biggest up-and-coming BitTorrent indexers out there, the BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2010 was created.The top... |
28 December 2010
04:08 GMT |
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It's barely December but 2010 is already being dissected and analyzed. In the search game, Yahoo got a head start with the 2010 Year in Review. The comprehensive report covers the top searches in several categories and paints a surprisingly thorough picture of the year ending."The Transocean oil rig explosion an... |
1 December 2010
10:45 GMT |
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Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia, is mulling an IPO according to rumors, following the successful initial public offer from another Russian internet giant, Mail.ru. The search company is looking to raise about $1.5 billion in the IPO and is considering a listing in London. According to Reuters, the Russian... |
30 November 2010
04:50 GMT |
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Google gained even more market share in the US in October after the introduction of Google Instant. While the increase is minimal, Google already dominates the space. Google accounted for 66.3 of explicit core searches in the US in the last month according to comScore."Google Sites led the explicit core search market... |
19 November 2010
11:41 GMT |
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Ask.com, the perennial underdog in the search game is giving up its search efforts and will be focusing exclusively on Q&A from now on. Most of the company's search team will be let go. The search engine will not be shut down, as it still commands a piece of the search market, but Ask will outsource crawling, in... |
10 November 2010
05:50 GMT |
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The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued a security alert to SCADA systems operators, integrators and vendors, that such vulnerable systems can be easily located online through a public search engine."The ICS-CERT has recently received several reports from multiple independen... |
2 November 2010
14:58 GMT |
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Just as the search world is becoming less varied, now that Yahoo search results are provided by Bing, in the US for now, a new search engine is being launched to challenge the established market. Blekko, which has been in the works for quite some time, is now going public and is available for everyone.Blekko is a cla... |
1 November 2010
06:49 GMT |
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The latest comScore search market numbers have been released and, while the numbers themselves are anything but exciting, Yahoo is feeling cheated out because of Google Instant so the analytics company felt it needed to explain how it deals with the new Google. "Looking at comScore’s report, it appears to me th... |
14 October 2010
03:59 GMT |
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According to the latest search market numbers, Google is once again gaining market share, mostly at the expense of Yahoo. In recent months, Google had seen a slow decline while Yahoo and Bing were picking up steam. However, the comScore report for September in the US, shows that Google is on the rise, gaining 0.7 per... |
13 October 2010
10:41 GMT |
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Google continues to dominate the search landscape in September, according to the latest data from Hitwise, but Yahoo and Bing still hold a sizeable chunk. However, it looks like the two search engines put together have actually lost a little market share last month. "Google accounted for 72.15 percent of all U.S. sea... |
11 October 2010
09:38 GMT |
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Huge new features like Google Instant get all of the spotlight, but the small updates and improvements are just as important or even more so for Google or any other product out there. These small updates are being constantly introduced and some may slip under the radar were it not for Google's weekly round up of... |
18 September 2010
04:48 GMT |
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The latest search engine data from comScore has been released and, for anyone following the market, there won't be any surprises. Google continues to dominate, though it loses a bit more market share, while Yahoo and Bing see some minor improvements. "Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in Augu... |
17 September 2010
13:21 GMT |
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According to the latest Nielsen numbers, Bing has overtaken Yahoo to become the number two search engine in the US. According to the metrics company, Bing grabbed 13.9 percent of the search market in August, compared to Yahoo's 13.1 percent, the first time the two search engines switched positions. "For the firs... |
14 September 2010
12:08 GMT |
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A new research suggests that a growing percentage of people searching for information of different search engines, are looking for something entertaining, unrelated to work.Scientists from Swansea University in Wales and the University of Erlangen in Germany presented these conclusions last week at the Human Computer... |
27 August 2010
05:20 GMT |
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Google and Yahoo have won a defamation lawsuit brought against them in Argentina by local entertainer Virginia Da Cunha. The singer and actress claimed that the two search engines were guilty of defamation by including links to adult entertainment sites in search results for queries related to her name. An Argentinia... |
20 August 2010
12:32 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it is now very close to making the switch to Bing-powered search results for all US and Canada users. Yahoo has been testing the new back-end with a number of users and now says it will start transitioning all users this week. "Last month we shared that we had begun limited testing of display... |
18 August 2010
09:22 GMT |
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Indian online marketing company Ybrant Digital bought Lycos, a vestige of the dot com era, for the bargain price of $36 million. Lycos, which was once valued at several billion dollars, still has a decent worldwide audience of several tens of millions of visitors. “Brand Lycos needs no introduction, we are exci... |
18 August 2010
06:33 GMT |
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A few months ago quite a fuss was made over automated searches introduced by both Yahoo and Bing which were counted as regular searches, leading to inflated market share numbers that had little relevance to advertisers and other people with interest in the market. comScore, one of the biggest analytics companies warn... |
17 August 2010
10:25 GMT |
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For an area as entrenched as the search market, there’s certainly been a lot of activity lately. The Blekko search engine has just entered a private beta phase and now Swingly, a search engine / questions and answers (Q&A) site hybrid, is opening up a little bit as well.While Swingly can be rightfully considere... |
17 August 2010
06:49 GMT |
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For the past few months, the search market share numbers have been overshadowed by several moves from the search engines. Specifically, some types of searches were not initiated by the users, but they counted towards the market share. Now comScore has come out with numbers that take this into account and only reports... |
17 August 2010
03:32 GMT |
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China is working on its own state-run search engine. It is not the first venture of its kind, but the latest move enjoys the backing of China Mobile Communications and Xinhua News Agency.China Mobile Communications is the country’s largest mobile operator and the world’s largest carrier in terms of subscr... |
16 August 2010
06:51 GMT |
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There’s been a lot of talk about Bing’s rather solid performance of late. Microsoft’s latest search engine has steadily gained market share and has been generally well received. But every once in a while some new numbers pop up showing just how much ahead Google is. According to data from advertisin... |
4 August 2010
05:18 GMT |
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Microsoft’s latest attempt at cracking the search market, Bing, has proven quite a success, given the tempered expectations, and Google is taking notice. It may not be threatening Google’s dominance any time soon, but it’s gotten Google engineers looking over the fence and borrowing some good ideas,... |
2 August 2010
04:51 GMT |
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Yahoo Japan announced earlier this week, somewhat surprisingly, that the Microsoft’s Bing won’t be powering its search capabilities and that the company is going with Google. Yahoo Japan is independent of Yahoo, who only owns a minority 35 percent stake, but it was believed that it will get in line with t... |
31 July 2010
06:17 GMT |
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One of the interesting points of the Yahoo - Microsoft search deal from last year is that it only covered the US. International Yahoo properties had the liberty to choose other search providers. Yahoo Japan had even more liberties since Yahoo only controls a minority stake in the company. And the Japan outfit took ad... |
27 July 2010
05:40 GMT |
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After preparing the ground for about a year, the new Q&A service from Ask.com is about to hit the web on July 29th, Business Insider reports. The grandfather of all Q&A services, Ask.com has slowly built its infrastructure, preparing resources and users for this moment right here, growing momentum and the industry ex... |
27 July 2010
03:13 GMT |
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Microsoft's upcoming mobile operating system Windows Phone 7 is expected to have as default search engine only one solution, namely the company's Bing service. For what it's worth, the move might not come as a surprise to many, especially since Bing is another Microsoft product, though it is quite int... |
22 July 2010
05:28 GMT |
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Yahoo plans to start serving organic and paid search results Powered by Bing on Yahoo Search. Already, Yahoo says, up to 25 percent of its search results in the US are being served by Bing. So far, testing has gone smooth and the merger is on track. Live testing is one of the final stages and Yahoo hopes to complete ... |
21 July 2010
10:47 GMT |
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The search space has been stagnant for the past few years with Google enjoying a very solid lead and with Yahoo and Microsoft trying to get by with what’s left. Everyone else barely registers. Microsoft has resorted to buying up Yahoo’s search engine to get some market share and is pouring billions to ver... |
20 July 2010
04:52 GMT |
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Yahoo will start providing Bing-powered search results for a small portion of the traffic this month. This is the next phase in the ‘merger’ of the two search engines which is slated to be complete by the holidays. Yahoo has already been testing the Bing integration offline, in a controlled environment, b... |
16 July 2010
06:27 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is reportedly gearing up for the release of a full-featured Bing search client for Google's Android mobile operating system. Moreover, it seems that the company would intend to have the solution released into the wild within a matter of weeks, and that it would offer the s... |
14 July 2010
08:27 GMT |
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The search numbers for June from comScore are out and they show Google losing a bit of market share at the gain of both Yahoo and Bing. These numbers have to be taken in the context of new features introduced by both Yahoo and Bing that may falsely indicate a rise in search volume. comScore has said it will change th... |
13 July 2010
04:28 GMT |
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The search market share numbers for June have started to come and Hitwise is showing Google dominating the space with over 70 percent of the searches conducted last month. Bing is shown seeing a 7 percent growth in search volume, getting close to a 10 percent market share. Overall, according to Hitwise numbers, the m... |
9 July 2010
05:13 GMT |
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Twitter’s role is constantly being shaped by its users. Since its launch, the service has gone from a SMS blogging app to ‘information network.’ These days, Twitter is as much about spreading hot news as it is about socializing. One proof of that is the rapidly growing number of searches done on the... |
7 July 2010
11:01 GMT |
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With the World Cup well underway there have been a lot of memorable and some not so memorable moments for football fans. As always, they’ve turned to the web to satisfy their curiosity of all things World Cup and, at least for the time being, the tool of choice is still Google. The company’s search engine... |
28 June 2010
06:12 GMT |
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Facebook has never been too friendly with Google. Ever since it rejected the latter’s acquisition proposition and went with an investment from Microsoft instead, Facebook’s stance has been pretty clear. While it is winning the social web war and Google’s attempts to gain some relevancy in the field ... |
25 June 2010
03:41 GMT |
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The first batch of search market share numbers for the previous month was confusing enough due to the automated searches on both Yahoo and Bing. Now, stats from Experian Hitwise only make the picture murkier, as they show a completely opposite trend. According to the analytics company, Google gained market share in M... |
22 June 2010
03:56 GMT |
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The search-engine market is as entrenched as it gets, and not for people’s lack of trying to change that. Google dominates, Yahoo and Bing follow with little hope of gaining on the Mountain View giant. This is largely because people ‘choose’ the search engine they’re familiar with it, not nece... |
14 June 2010
06:35 GMT |
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The search share numbers for May from comScore came out a couple of days ago and, on the face of it, they showed a similar trend to the previous months. Bing and Yahoo are both shown gaining some market share, while Google lost a small amount. But a controversy has been brewing over the accuracy or rather the relevan... |
12 June 2010
05:31 GMT |
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Google has finally rolled out its updated indexing system Caffeine, which first started testing last summer. The new system promises fresher content in results with significantly less delay between when a page is published and when it ends up in Google searches. It’s also better at processing the enormous amoun... |
9 June 2010
04:27 GMT |
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Scroogle, a website that promised its users anonymous Google Searches, has had a rough few days since the massive Google redesign rolled out. Due to some changes Google introduced on Monday, the site couldn’t scrape search results and had to shut down. The owners didn’t believe there was a way of saving i... |
12 May 2010
10:27 GMT |
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The search share numbers for April in the US from comScore are out and they paint an interesting picture. For the first time in many months, Yahoo has actually risen in market share and by almost one percent point. That sounds impressive, but people are calling shenanigans on Yahoo’s practices. The big rise in ... |
11 May 2010
10:21 GMT |
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The search market numbers for March are starting to come in and Experian Hitwise is the first to deliver. The overall picture is hardly surprising, but there are quite a few interesting trends, to say the least. According to the report, Google lost market share, Bing's slow growth stopped, this while Ask and Yah... |
8 April 2010
08:01 GMT |
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Yahoo is introducing some new search tools for a couple of its sites in a move to reverse or at least stop the bleeding-search-users trend that has been plaguing it for many months now. Who knows if it will work, but it can't hurt either and the new tools look interesting enough. The latest Yahoo search properti... |
2 April 2010
08:39 GMT |
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Almost a year after it replaced Live Search with Bing, Microsoft is introducing a fresh, new release of its search/decision engine. Effective today, March 25th, 2010, approximately 5% of users in the United States will come across the new Bing experience via what the company refers to as the preview of the next major... |
25 March 2010
10:31 GMT |
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Microsoft’s second video commercial aimed at users in the United Kingdom is now live (users can watch it embedded at the bottom of this article). The advertisement is an example of the overall marketing strategy designed to help boost the popularity of the Bing search/decision engine. In this regard, the messag... |
23 March 2010
07:21 GMT |
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