Yahoo Yang Interview Exclusive Avi File
The most highly-anticipated webcast in the search engine world: Yahoo’s Q4 and full year 2007 earnings conference call (Jan. 29, 5 pm Eastern; 2 pm Pacific). Jerry Yang will outline his vision for Yahoo. We’ll hear how Yahoo Panama is performing. We may even learn what Yahoo’s global search engine strategy is. Vertical search engines [...]
Google Close To Two-Thirds Of Search Market
Market share for Google search virtually reached 66 percent for the month of December 2007, while the next three major search sites gave back a little bit. read more More: continued here google close to two thirds of search market
SES Chicago: Soaring Through Universal Search
Searchers represent a valuable commodity to search engines, and the keen-minded technologists behind the algorithms want to make search sites as useful as possible, no matter what the query.SES Chicago returns, and WebProNews is on hand to bring you reports and videos from the Windy City. Enjoy our coverage this week. Universal search. Blended search. [...]
Google Downtime As Rare As Four-Leaf Clovers
When someone (truthfully) says “99.9 percent of the time,” it’s often all right to round up to one hundred. When examining Google’s downtime, though, there’s a lot to be learned by looking at numbers even farther beyond the decimal point. Way out at the thousandths place – where differences of just 0.001 are measured – [...]
Top Web Sites Have Retention, Overlap
Nielsen//NetRatings has announced the leaders in three Web categories. Search, career development and multi-category travel have had high month- over- month visitor retention rates from June to July, but also had audience overlap with other competitors in their categories. Search providers had the best retention rates, with an average of 71 percent of June visitors [...]
ComScore qScore Tallies Well For Google
Search sites measured by comScore under their new qScore 2.0 methodology will benefit from the hosted and affiliated search traffic they send back to the main search engine. It’s a scenario that offers Google a heaping helping of share by comScore’s reckoning.A couple of significant changes by comScore will alter the landscape of how they [...]
Microsoft Search Gained Without Club Live
When web services firm Compete stripped out the Club Live numbers from MSN/Live Search share, Microsoft still enjoyed a month to month gain in search.Last month’s figures from Compete stirred up some attention, as it appeared Microsoft’s Club Live games padded the company’s search share. Compete separated the data for Club Live out of their [...]
Google Dips But Leads Search In June
Their lead faded slightly to 49.5 percent of the US search market, but that was good enough for Google to easily best the field for June 2007.ComScore found in its assessment of June’s search data the usual top five search sites lined up like little ducks following their mother. Google led the way, with Yahoo, [...]
Microsoft Buys Its Way To More Searches
MSN/Live Search received a substantial boost to its volume of queries after launching a game site that makes players use Live Search to gain points.All that money IAC has spent on advertising about Ask.com and the algorithm hasn’t helped move the search engine’s market share. It turns out that people want free stuff, not billboards, [...]
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