For the second straight month Bing saw its U.S. search engine market share on the rise. Meanwhile, Google held steady, duplicating its record share of the search market, while Yahoo held steady after 10 months of declines, comScore reported. comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report* July 2012 vs. June 2012 Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations Source: comScore qSearch …
Yahoo Tries to Woo Small Businesses With Marketing Dashboard
Yahoo Small Business hopes to grow by offering small businesses an integrated marketing dashboard to manage and expand their digital marketing efforts. The Yahoo Marketing Dashboard, generally available today, provides a consolidated view of a business’s marketing results and reputation. Tom Byun, general manager, Yahoo Small Business, said the company has almost 10 million small business users of products including …
Is Apple Is About To Launch A New Global Search Engine?
Did the headline catch your eye? I really wanted a teaser headline for this post which would entice people to read and discover the details of a new global search engine — but for that message, a teaser alone just wasn’t credible. But when I added the word “Apple” to the headline, it completely changed its dynamics — just like …
Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo join forces against Google Ads
Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo have all pledged to fight the dominance of Google’s pay per click (PPC) advertising services in a venture of their own. According to IT Pro Portal, the three have collaborated on a shared ad platform that allows advertisers to place ads on the sites of all three companies with a single buy option. While advertisers can …
Dex actions programs…New Low?
I stumbled across a SERP (Search Engine Results Page) today that has taken the last of the air from the Dex sails. Dex One, or dexknows.com has started claiming local listings on the customers behalf and pointing the local, or places (shown in example below in red) listings at the Dex “digital storefront.” What does this mean? On the surface …
Google Steals Yahoo!’s Display Revenue Crown
As their display prophets foresaw, it came to be that Google ruled all online advertising. While it’s not surprising to hear Google dominated search revenue (a 59.6% share in 1Q11, a tad bit above 59.1% in 4Q10), the latest stats from market researcher IDC also show that Google passed Yahoo! in display revenue during the first quarter of 2011. It’s …
Search Engine Rankings – April 2011
comScore recently released April 2011search engine rankings report. This report shows overall market share / usage of the top search engines. Here is the recap in order of usage: Google search market share fell to 65.4 percent, a loss of .3 percent in March. Yahoo grew to 15.9 percent, a gain of .2 percent. Bing grew to 14.1 percent, a …
Online search records spark privacy concerns
Yahoo says it will now keep data for 18 months, matching Google. Yahoo plans to extend the amount of time it retains records on what its users search for online, less than two and a half years after breaking from the other big Internet search engines and promising to delete such data promptly. The new policy brings the company in …
SEO vs. SEM
Many people confuse or don’t know the difference between the two. I’m going to try to help you understand the pros and cons to both allowing you to make a decision for yourself. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is located in the main space of the search engine results page and has always been a fundamental goal on initial website construction. …