Archive of the Category 'Search Engines'

Search Engine Blind Test

Monday, den 10. August 2009

TechCrunch have reported on a new Blind Test for Search Engines, the website allows you to search both the web and images; it will then give you 3 results (Google, Yahoo and Bing in no particular order) you then choose a column of results and it will reveal the search engine you chose. Give it [...]

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Bing vs Google – Catalyst Group Study

Wednesday, den 1. July 2009

Catalyst Group have performed a study on Google vs Bing, the results came out with the majority of searchers preffering Bing’s Search Interface over that of Googles. Altough searchers preffered the Bing Interface, they still choose to stick to the search engine they are familar with, which ofcourse is Google. See below for the presentation, [...]

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Microsoft Bing Takes #2 UK Spot

Thursday, den 11. June 2009

According to Hitwise Data, the newly launched MSN search engine Bing has taken the number 2 spot for the most visited search engine in the UK. On it’s launch date, Bing accounted for 10.8% of all UK Search Engine traffic. Although it had 10.8% on launch, it has decreased to 3.1% of all search engine [...]

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Don’t Ignore Your Sitemap!

Tuesday, den 28. April 2009

Carrie Hill from Search Engine Watch has posted a good article about Sitemaps and their use for SEO and why you should use them. Below is a small quote from the article:
“Sitemaps can be valuable tools for pointing strong internal links at various pages of your Web site. Internal linking is just one factor in [...]

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Over 50% of Companies Plan to Increase Search Budgets for Measurable ROI

Friday, den 24. April 2009

The annual UK Search Engine Marketing Benchmark Report, which surveyed 800 client companies, agencies and search consultants, has found that 55% of companies intend to increase natural search budgets and just under half (45%) will up paid search investment this year as they look for measurable ROI in difficult economic times.
Covering the Report, NMA had this [...]

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24.1% of searches sending traffic to Google News are celebrity related

Thursday, den 26. March 2009

According to a report by Hitwise, 24.1% of searches sending traffic to Google News were celebrity related. NMA had this to say:

“The report tracked over 260,000 search terms that sent traffic to the site in the 12 weeks leading up to 21 March 2009 and found the most searched for term was ‘Jade Goody’ which accounted [...]

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Google Content Network Traffic Grows by 300%

Wednesday, den 28. January 2009

In the wake of Yahoo’s anouncement that its content network will be shutting down as of the 31st March, Google have shown that the content network can, and does, work. Research by Efficient Frontier has shown that impressions on Googles Content Network have grown by over 300% year on year as advertisers divert money from MSN and [...]

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Microsoft to Slash 5% of WorkForce

Thursday, den 22. January 2009

Microsft revealed today that they are to cut 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months as the company drops 11% on profits.
 NMA had this to say:
 Microsoft is to cut 5,000 jobs, approximately 5% of its entire workforce, over the next 18 months as the company looks to make drastic cost cuts throughout the business.
The redundancies [...]

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Scour – Social Search Engine?

Monday, den 19. January 2009

I gave it a try to Scour, a social search engine which combines results from Google, Yahoo and MSN, and have got to admit that I am really impressed.  The results seem to be consistent with the major Search Engines and I have also found very interesting some of its novel features, such as: commenting [...]

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UK Search Engine Market share November 2008

Monday, den 12. January 2009

This list features the top 4 leading search engines based on UK Internet usage, ranked by volume of searches for the 4 weeks ending November 29, 2008.
1. www.google.co.uk                         75.76%
2. www.google.com                          14.58%
3. http://uk.search.yahoo.com        2.75%
4. www.live.com                                 2.09%
Source – Hitwise – November, 2008 – based on volume of searches.

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