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Category Archives: Search Engines
Google: Does Search Data Indicate a Recession?
February 26, 2008
The news is buzzing this morning, starting with a report from UBS that alleges that Google's paid clicks are down in January. Analysts from a number of firms have been speculating that this may be a sign that a slowing... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 01:42 PM
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Microsoft and Yahoo!: Putting the Offer in Perspective
February 01, 2008
Addendum: There was an error on the properties chart below, percentages for the maps category were transcribed improperly. This morning, as reported by CNN, Microsoft made an unsolicited $44.6 billion stock and cash bid for Yahoo!. To put this potential... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 12:47 PM
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Charting Answers
November 29, 2006
I woke this morning to Danny Sullivan's blog entry regarding the demise of Google Answers which was announced yesterday. In his post Danny alluded to an updated Hitwise chart comparing Yahoo! Answers, Google Answers and the new Microsoft Windows Live... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 10:17 AM
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Social Networks & News - Another MySpace Phenomenon
August 31, 2006
In my daily blog reading this morning, I noticed Steve Rubel's post regarding the Washington Post's initiative to build reader comments and profiles into their site, a step towards social news networking. Just today, we issued a press release that... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 06:07 PM
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Google's Weekly Search Numbers
August 22, 2006
Danny Sullivan posted a very interesting piece yesterday on what the research services were reporting for Google's July market share of executed searches. We posted our July numbers the first week of this month indicating a healthy growth in executed... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 07:56 AM
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Google, Yahoo! and MSN: Brand Association
August 03, 2006
Here's a preview of a slide from my Search Engine Landscape Presentation for Search Engine Strategies - San Jose (11:00am on Monday). Each time I present on this panel , I look forward to showing everyone some fresh perspective on... Continue reading...
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Google Breaks 60% - U.S. July Search Volume Numbers
August 03, 2006
In addition to market share of visits and page impressions, one of the statistics that Hitwise compiles is the volume of searches executed on the top search engines. Given our large sample, "top" is defined as 57 search engines used... Continue reading...
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