comScore: New Google High, New Yahoo & Microsoft Lows, Though Both Rise In Raw Searches

Continuing from previous search stats from Hitwise and Compete, comScore is now out with search engine share in the United States for March 2008. Similar to Hitwise, Google hits a new high while Microsoft and Yahoo hit new lows. But in terms of raw searches, Yahoo and Microsoft showed gains. Searches ...
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Apr. 15, 2008 at 6:48pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Hitwise: Search Popularity Static; Live.com Only Tiny Slice Of Microsoft's Share

The latest search popularity stats for March 2007 have come out from Hitwise. They show nothing different than last month. Google had a tiny 0.2 percent rise, while Yahoo dropped the same tiny amount. Live had a tiny 0.3 percent rise, though given Live's already small amount of traffic, that's more ...
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Apr. 12, 2007 at 12:04pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Can Yahoo & Microsoft Ever Catch Google?

Google is not easing up in terms of search market share and acquisitions. I need not say it but Google is a formidable force that Yahoo and Microsoft are not going to overcome easily. Consider the following: Recent search engine market share figures (May 2007) show Google with 57.4%, Yahoo! with 22 ...
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Jul. 3, 2007 at 12:44pm Eastern by Mona Elesseily

comScore Introduces Expanded U.S., Global Search Measurement And Methodology

The analytics firm comScore is expanding its core search metrics product, qSearch, in a number of ways that the company says will make the measurement of search volumes and market share more accurate than it was previously. According to James Lamberti, SVP Search and Media at comScore, the expansion ...
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Aug. 20, 2007 at 1:00pm Eastern by Greg Sterling

Question & Answer Search Engines Ranked

Via Slashdot, What's the Best Q&A Site? from MIT Technology Review tests several question and answer search engine services. They reviewed and ranked AnswerBag, Askville, Live QnA, Wondir, Yahoo Answers and Yedda. So how did they rank? Out of a total 12 points, Yahoo Answers scored 11 points, coming ...

Dec. 28, 2006 at 9:16am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Search Engine Property Stats: Google & Yahoo

Last night Bill Tancer complied an "extended" list of statistics and numbers on Google's Properties, which shows the market share of all of Google's properties as they compete with each other. With no surprise, Google's search product captures the bulk of the share with over 78% share, followed ...
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Dec. 1, 2006 at 8:48am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Robots.txt Study Shows Webmasters Favor Google; BotSeer Robots.txt Search Engine Released

The Pennsylvania State University conducted a study that showed webmasters favored Google over other search engines in terms of allowing access to their web sites. An associated BotSeer search engine that allows searching across a collection of robots.txt files was also released. The study looked at ...
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Nov. 15, 2007 at 1:19pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 13, 2007

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web: From Search Engine Land: Viacom Sues Google For $1 Billion Over Unauthorized Videos Viacom in $1 bln copyright suit vs Google, YouTube from Reuters reports that Viacom Inc. has confirmed ...
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Mar. 13, 2007 at 4:35pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Search Headlines: December 2006

Below is a recap of stories from Search Engine Land and from around the web as presented in our SearchCap newsletter during the entire month of December. Want these type of headlines on a regular basis? Then sign-up for SearchCap and get them each day during the week! Want a more descriptive monthly ...

Jan. 1, 2007 at 6:35pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Video Search Engine Start-Up Yidio Vies For Market Share

The launch of Yidio, a new video search engine start-up, shows that investors feel there is still an opportunity to earn market share in video search. Yidio is a division of 2ten Media and debuted in the beginning of June. The San Diego based search engine indexes content from video portals such as ...

Jun. 12, 2008 at 8:54am Eastern by Bob Heyman