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In
January 2007, Google share of online search in US jumped 0.2% to 47.5%,
according to comScore Networks qSearch analysis of activity across
competitive search engines in the US. Yahoo! Sites lost 0.4%
share to finish second with 28.1% of U.S. searches.
Continue reading... "Top 5 Search Engines in January; Searches Up 26% YoY to 6.6 billion" »
Advertisers
in North America spent roughly $10 billion on search engine marketing in
2006, a 62% jump from 2005, according to an annual survey by the Search
Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO).
Based on the survey, SEMPO estimates that search engine marketing will
double to $18.6 billion by 2011, reports
MediaWeek.
Continue reading... "Search Engine Marketing Jumps 62% to Hit $10 billion in 2006: SEMPO Survey " »
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U.S. Online Search Engine Rankings - December 2006 |
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|
Search Engine |
Dec-06 Searches |
% Share |
% Share |
One Month % Chg. |
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Google Sites |
3.2 bil. |
47.3 |
46.9 |
0.4 |
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Yahoo! Sites |
1.9 bil. |
28.5 |
28.2 |
0.3 |
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Microsoft Sites |
713 mil. |
10.5 |
11.0 |
-0.5 |
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Ask Network |
363 mil. |
5.4 |
5.5 |
-0.1 |
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Time Warner Network |
335 mil. |
4.9 |
5.1 |
-0.2 |
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Total Searches |
6.7 bil. |
100% |
100% |
1% |
| Source: comScore qSearch | ||||
Worldwide
cellphone subscribers are estimated at over 2 billion while the global
internet users stand at around 1.2 billion. Yahoo! is placing big bets on
mobile phone search, and announced
Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2007 in
Las Vegas today.
Continue reading... "Yahoo! Aims 1 billion Mobile Users with Yahoo! Go 2.0" »
Google is home to over 3 billion searches each month and accounts for
nearly 50% of the online searches in U.S. As we prepare to say
farewell to 2006 and welcome 2007, Google has compiled several top 10
search lists in several categories. Here are some interesting ones...Continue reading... "Google Zeitgeist 2006: Top 10 Searches; Top 10 Who.. What.. How.. Define..." »
Google
continues to dominate the search with almost half the share of search
market and generating over 3 billion monthly searches. However, in terms
of year over growth, Ask.com has taken the lead in November with a 33%
jump in search share versus 31% increase for Google, acording to the
November 2006 data for the Top U.S. Search Providers from Nielsen//NetRatings
(NTRT).
Continue reading... "Nielsen Nov. Search Share Rankings: Ask.com Surpasses Google in Growth" »
When
online searches fail, more than half conclude "it’s there, but I
can't find it". Many U.S. professionals do not get the results
they are looking for and are forced to abandon their efforts when they use
popular Internet search engines for work-related research, according to a
survey of more than 1,000 professionals, commissioned by Convera Corp. (CNVR).
Continue reading... "Search Engines - 70% Get Lost and End Up in Unexpected Places: Survey" »
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Q3
2006 |
Advertisers bid aggressively on more expensive keywords in Q3 as pre-holiday positioning began a bit earlier this year, according to the Q3 Search Trend Report, an analysis of the Performics 50 Index released quarterly by Performics, a division of DoubleClick |
Continue reading... "Q3 Search Trends: Conversion, Clicks & Costs Up" »
Search
engines have become an increasingly
important part of the online experience of American internet users.
As consumers find online search more convenient than traditional yellow
pages to find local services, local search is experiencing strong
growth.
