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Bing is at the top.

August 27, 2009

A Bing sticker sits atop Mount Kiliminjaro, but comScore’s July 2009 U.S. Search Engine Rankings report shows that Google still owns almost 65% of the search engine market.

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Ask May Be the Engine that Could

March 27, 2009

Google maintains its dominance with 63.3% market share among the top five search engines. Yahoo! comes in second with 20.6% share, followed by Microsoft with 8.2% of the search market. Ask.com is the “also ran” engine with a mere 4.1% share of the core search market. When comparing the search volume from January to February, Ask.com shows an unusually high jump of 21% more search queries — despite February’s three fewer days.

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6 Ways Organic Search Results are Like Superbowl Ads

March 6, 2009

When it comes to advertising, the Superbowl is the granddaddy of them all. During this one football game, viewership is huge. Advertisers shell out millions of dollars to run just one thirty-second spot and agencies vie to produce THE spot that will have everyone talking, blogging and tweeting long after the MVP’s trip to Disneyland. It occurred to me as I reviewed the January search stats that organic search is the superbowl of online marketing; here are six ways.

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Search Engines on Twitter

February 24, 2009

Here’s a list of the top search engines’ accounts on Twitter.

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Top 5 Superbowl Ads According to Google

February 2, 2009

Even before the confetti flew to signal the end of the game, the internet was all a-twitter with people casting their votes for their favorite Superbowl Ads. Here are the top 5 Superbowl Ads as determined by search volume on Google, reported by Google Trends.

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Is Twitter the Next Big Search Engine?

January 30, 2009

Time will tell whether Twitter Search will become as mainstream as Twitter itself–or even the traditional search engines. Integration with the user’s Twitter interface should help increase its use exponentially. In the meantime, I’ll continue to add to it’s search volume. How about you?

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When it Comes to SEO, the Color of your Hat Matters

January 11, 2009

In movies set in the wild west, the good guys always wore white and the bad guys donned black. The same is true in the world of search engine optimization (SEO).

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November Search Volume by Search Engine

January 10, 2009

comScore (website) tracks the volume of searches in the United States each month. Following are their findings for November 2008, compared to October 2008. November 2008 U.S. Core Search Rankings Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in November with 63.5 percent of the searches conducted, up 0.4 percentage points from October, followed by [...]

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The Anatomy of a Google Search Results Page

January 3, 2009

Natural listings, organic results, sponsored ads, SERPs — these are just a few of the terms used to describe elements of a Google results page. But do you know what each one means? If they’re Greek to you, then keep on reading. When you conduct a search query on Google, the results page presented — [...]

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