Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 70.60% of all U.S. searches for October. Yahoo search share was 16.14% down 1% Bing.com search share rose 7% from September to 9.57%. Hitwise also found that Longer search queries, averaging searches of five to more than eight words in length, increased 3 percent between October and September 2009. Searches of eight or more words increased 4 … [Read more...]
Real Time Tweets & FaceBook Updates Coming To Search & Its Not Google (yet)
Microsoft announced today that its search engine, Bing.com has signed deals with both Twitter and Facebook to bring real-time status updates and tweets into search results. Although this has been rumored for a while to Google as well, Microsoft is the only one with a deal. The deal however it not exclusive and its expected that Google will join the party. According to allthingsd.com, … [Read more...]
Drew Carey Ups His Bid For Twitter Account “Drew” To A Cool Million
Last week we told you about Drew Carey, bidding up to $100,000 for the Twitter name "Drew" (@drewfromTV) if he got 100,000 followers on his own Twitter account by November 9, 2009. Since the news last week, the number of followers on Drew Carey account went from around 13,000 to over 50,000. Today according to Mashable.com, Drew Carey increased his bid up to $1,000,000, if he reaches one … [Read more...]
Google: Ad Recession Is Over
The CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt said today, that the worst of the advertising recession is over and Google started to see signs of a recovery in May and June. Schmidt said that the largest U.S. Internet search engine has increased its hiring and investment in anticipation of a recovery. "The worst is behind us," he said. "We're clearly seeing aspects of recovery, not just in the U.S. but … [Read more...]
UPDATE: Drew Carey Bids $25K For “Drew” Twitter Account
We wrote a couple of days ago about the Twitter account "Drew" being up for sale, with Twitter's blessing, carrying a minimum bid of $10K, followers not included. Today comes the news that Price is Right host Drew Carey bid $25,000 for the Twitter name "Drew", with a potential bid of up to $100,000 if Drew Carey's own Twitter account (@drewfromTV) gets to 100,000 followers by November 9th … [Read more...]
This Is What Happens When Browsers Try To Be Search Engines
Elliot raised an interesting issue on this blog today on how certain ISP (Road Runner in his case), resolve incomplete URL in the browser to a site other than what your intending. Once Elliot raised the issue, I went in a different direction and tried the same term Elliot was searching for in Safari, "TVlistings" on Firefox. I have Bell South as my ISP (owned by AT&T) and I don't have … [Read more...]
Twitter Account Name “Drew” Is At Auction For Charity
Interesting article over at Mashable.com, discussing the online charity auction for the Twitter account name "Drew" (Name only followers are not included, he has over 7,200 of them by the way) The auction is being held for the benefit of and all money from the sale will go directly to the LIVESTRONG foundation. The seller is Drew Olanoff, who was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma and who has … [Read more...]