Compete: Yes, Google Hits New Search Share High

... from Hitwise, Nielsen and comScore. Plus, an interesting look at how much search traffic Microsoft's Live Search Club generates. NOTE: ON THE PIE CHART ABOVE, AOL'S LABEL IS SHOWN OVER THE "ASK" SLICE AND THE ASK FIGURE SHOULD BE 3.5%. THE PIE SLICE PROPORTIONS THEMSELVES ARE CORRECT. SORRY ...

May. 23, 2008 at 3:45pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review

Each month, I compile Search Month -- a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more work than I imagined, but I hope you ...
Related Searches: People Search | Search Advertising | Reachlocal | Search Trend

Jan. 1, 2008 at 2:29pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

The Long Road To The Debate Over "White Hat Cloaking"

I really hate arguments over cloaking. Like really hate them. But Rand Fishkin recently did a chart outlining the degrees of "safeness" to cloaking that in turn riled up Google's Matt Cutts in comments there. No doubt others at search engines also dislike the idea that any cloaking is " ...

Jul. 1, 2008 at 3:13pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Google Top Worldwide Search Engine; Baidu Beats Microsoft

... Latin America 50 million 4.8 billion 95.7 Middle East - Africa 31 million 2.1 billion 69.8 Worldwide 754 million 61 billion 80.9 Highlights from the chart: Asia-Pacific has both more unique searchers and actual searches happening. Of course, that region also likely has more people overall. Perhaps later ...
Related Searches: Korea | Baidu

Oct. 10, 2007 at 7:28pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Google Trends Comes To Web Sites: Trends For Web Sites

... is an estimate in the search volume for this site for all regions over "all years." Here is the screen capture: Under the unique visitors chart is additional data. The "regions" data is something brought over from Google Trends for keywords, which shows how popular your site is by ...
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Jun. 20, 2008 at 1:19pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Google Insights For Search Launches

... , in the category of Sports. I see that overall sports-related searches seem to be on the rise, by just looking at the "interest over time" chart: On the left-hand side, under the chart, you see "Top Searches." Clearly, [football] is a popular search phrase in New York, but it is ...

Aug. 6, 2008 at 12:00am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SEM News, The Ultimate Guide To Search Marketing Optimization Part 3 & The Top Marketing Words Of All Time

... using the My Change History tool. In addition to listing the changes made in your account, the My Change History tool shows these events mapped to a chart of your account's impressions, clicks, conversions, click through rate (CTR), or cost. Having all this information in one place can help you spot ...

Aug. 1, 2008 at 1:06pm Eastern by Josh Dreller

SEMPO Finds Most SEMs Willing To Pay More For Enhanced Targeting, Interest In Mobile Search And Video

... ads. Right now, however, mobile is a "premium" product with much higher CPMs than online. That will likely change over time. Here are some charts from the report: Source: SEMPO Where Do Search Dollars Come From? Source: SEMPO According to SEMPO, most SEMs would pay more to add behavioral or ...
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Jun. 19, 2008 at 9:30am Eastern by Greg Sterling

Ratings Service Faceoff: Search Share Compared, June 2007 To March 2008

... and October 2007 for Nielsen. Also, in terms of raw number of searches, Hitwise doesn't report these, so they aren't on the number of searches charts below. Services shown in the charts blow: CS stands for comScore NR stands for Nielsen Online HW stands for Hitwise CP stands for Compete The charts show ...
Related Searches: Search Share | Netratings

Apr. 21, 2008 at 8:52pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Nielsen: Google Continues High But Others Rise In Share

... remains at a high but unlike some of the others, Microsoft and Yahoo come off lows. Searches that happened on the five top search engines in the pie chart above: Google: 58.7% Yahoo: 18.1% Microsoft: 12.0% AOL: 4.1% Ask: 2.4% Note that in the chart above, traffic from Ask.com-owned My Web Search is ...
Related Searches: Google Market Share | Google Share | Pdf

Apr. 21, 2008 at 8:47pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan