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- Search Engine
- Software that searches for data based on some criteria. Although search engines have been around for decades, they were brought to the forefront after the Web exploded onto the...
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- US search engine market shares in October 2008
- Domain October 2007 September 2008 October 2008 www.google.com 64.49% 71.16% 71.70% search.yahoo.com 21.65% 18.06% 17.74% search.msn.com 7.42% 5.36% 5.40% www.ask.com 4.76% 3.63% 3.53% Source: Hitwise by NB
- Tags: Search Engine, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Traffic from Google and other search engines to specific Web categories in October 2008
- Category Share of traffic from search engines Growth in share of traffic from search engines October 2007 - October 2008 Share of traffic from Google October 2008 Growth in share of traffic from Google October 2007 - October 2008 Health and Medical 44.92% 0% 31.88% 10% Travel...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Search Engine, Traffic, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-29
- Top search engines in China in September 2008
- Rank Search Engine Audience, 000 1 Baidu 171 2 Google.com.cn 81 3 Soso 49 4 Hao123 48 5 Gougou 28 6 Sogou 24 7 LiveSearch 15 8 Sina iAsk 11 9 Google.com...
- Tags: Search Engine, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Is Apple building a search engine?
- Rumor has it over at TechCrunch that Apple is working on some type of search engine. If you think about it, the idea is not so far-fetched: Apple's Safari browser has 6-7% market share and currently uses Google exclusively as the search engine for both the standard...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Apple Inc., Search, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Top search engines in September 2008
- Provider Searches, 000 Growth, YTY Share All Search 8,089,226 9.4% 100.0% Google Search 4,825,556 20.8% 59.7% Yahoo! Search 1,464,478 1.5% 18.1% MSN/Windows Live Search 953,504 7.1% 11.8% AOL Search 335,187 -24.6% 4.1% Ask.com Search 178,217 12.1% 2.2% ...
- Tags: Search Engine, E-mail Providers, Search, Cloud Computing, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- Google-Yahoo deal: Washington doesn't understand us
- Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang made an interesting comment during his appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit this week. When asked what caused the pending ad deal with Google to go south, Yang said - among other things - that Washington doesn't understand our industry. Amen, brother! ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Advertisement, Search Engine, Washington, Yahoo! Inc., Industry, Search, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Leading US search engines in the US in September 2008
- Rank Search Engine Volume 1. www.google.com 71.16% 2. search.yahoo.com 18.06% 3. search.msn.com 4.22% 4. www.ask.com 3.63% Source: Hitwise by NB
- Tags: Search Engine, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- Affine (zip)
- Search engines are very good at finding what you're after, but they can't guess your intentions. Suppose you want to learn about caviar. The first hit is Wikipedia, which is fine, but the rest of the page is mostly caviar shops. What you wanted was information about caviar, you already...
- Tags: Search Engine, Icon, Maurice Calvert, Affine, Search
- Software downloads 2008-10-30
- Russia rebuffs Google on purchase of Begun search engine
- Russia has blocked Google's proposed $160 million acquisition of Zao Begun, a search-and-contextual-advertising company owned by the Russian company Rambler Media. Russia says Google didn't provide enough information but the deal would have made for real competition. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Russia, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Search, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- NgageViewer (exe)
- This free and simple Web site traffic monitoring solution helps business owners, Web masters, marketers, content developers, and Web designers monitor and understand Web traffic in real time. You will know the visitors I.P. address, referring Web site, search engine terms, time on site, what pages they have been to...
- Tags: Web, Search Engine, Monitoring, Ngage, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Search, Marketing, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-10-20
- Top search engines in Germany in July 2008
- Property Searches, mln. Searchers, 000 Share, % Total Internet 3,790 34,372 100.0% Google Sites 3,022 32,547 79.8% eBay 230 13,250 6.1% Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck 128 5,408 3.4% ProSiebenSat1 Sites 79 5,788 2.1% AOL LLC 63 7,163 1.7%...
- Tags: Search Engine, Site, Search, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- Google opens up your profile to search engines
- Google opens up your profile to search enginesIt's all good...I don't have a problem with Google opening up my public profile to search engines because it was always clear that it is a public-facing profile. It's the equivalent of a MySpace profile page... it was never meant to be...
- Tags: SEARCH, search engine, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-15
- Google opens up your profile to search engines
- Google has been letting people create profiles for a while now -- you can see mine here, and you can create yours here. Until today, your public profile that you created has remained hidden from search engines. Just about a half hour ago, Google added a...
- Tags: Profile, Google Inc., Search Engine, Search, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- 49% of users use search engines on a typical day in 2008
- The percentage of internet users who use search engines on a typical day has been steadily rising from 33% of all users in 2002, to 49%.With this increase, the number of those using a search engine on a typical day is pulling ever closer to the 60% of internet users...
- Tags: Internet User, Search Engine, Internet, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- ChunkIt Internet Explorer (exe)
- Give your favorite search engine super strength by transforming your favorite search engine into an information powerhouse. ChunkIt! searches within the pages of your engine's results to find your search terms in context. ChunkIt! also searches web pages and discovers information that conventional search tools may have never revealed. In...
- Tags: Web, Search Engine, Information, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Page, TigerLogic, Channel Management, Search, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-10-03
- Who got traffic from Google and other search engines in August 2008
- Category Percent of Category Traffic from Search Engines, Aug-08 Percent Change in Share of Traffic From Search Engines, Aug-08 - Aug-07 Percent of Category Traffic from Google, Aug-08 Percent Change in Share of Traffic From Google, Aug-08 - Aug-07 Health and Medical 44.24% 3% 31.07% 12% ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Microsoft tries to lure more searchers with another giveaway
- Microsoft tries to lure more searchers with another giveawayRE: Microsoft tries to lure more searchers with another giveawayOdd way to grow share by limiting the number of people who can join. You're assuming that you need to pay them to search with you a dangerous precedent and by limiting...
- Tags: SEARCH, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, search engine, Microsoft Tries, giveaway, searcher, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Google to go back in time?
- Warning, this post is speculative, but I think all signs point to what I am about to describe. Google may be about to launch a search tool that uses the same algorithms used way back in 2001. Why would they do this? I think it's probably the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Entry, Search, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Top search engines in Asia-Pacific in July 2008
- Top 10 Properties Searches, mln. Share of Searches Total Internet 27,059 100.0 Google Sites 9,073 33.5 Baidu.com Inc. 7,406 27.4 Yahoo! Sites 5,342 19.7 NHN Corporation 1,239 4.6 Alibaba.com Corporation 823 3.0 TENCENT Inc. 513 1.9...
- Tags: Search Engine, ComScore Networks Inc., Asia-Pacific, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Growth among US search engines in August 2008
- Core Search Entity Jul-08 Aug-08 Growth, MTM Total Core Search 11,753 11,748 0% Google Sites 7,273 7,398 2% Yahoo! Sites 2,405 2,300 -4% Microsoft Sites 1,045 977 -7% Ask Network 531 569 7% AOL LLC 499 504 1%...
- Tags: Search Engine, Site, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-09-27
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