According to Nielsen research, Bing.com is the fastest growing search engine, with 1.1 billion searhces for the month of August, 22.1% more than July. Overall Bing share of the search engine market in August was 10.7%. Google share increased by 2.6% to 64.6%. Yahoo saw its search results drop 4.2% in August to 16%. So the good news for Microsoft is that Bing is gaining market share, … [Read more...]
Bing Rolls Out “Visual Search”: Replacing Text With Pictures, What Does This Mean For PPC?
Yesterday, Microsoft introduced a visual search feature in its Bing search engine, at the Tech Crunch 50, conference in San Francisco. Visual Search enable users to search by browsing through images rather than scrolling pages of text-based results. The search results will display sortable row of galleries of images pertaining to the subject being searched, Initially, the service will be … [Read more...]
Is Google Going Into The Loan Service Business? LendingTree.com Files Suit
Is Google going to start competing against its own advertisers? According to a suit filed Tuesday by LendingTree.com, they might be planning to. LendingTree filed suit against Mortech Inc. in federal court, claiming that Mortech is violating an exclusive agreement with LendingTree, by setting up a competing loan-referral service will reveal LendingTree trade secrets to Google, by working … [Read more...]
Yahoo Buys Arab Online Community Site Maktoob.com For $75-$85 Million
According to various reports this morning, Yahoo has agreed to purchase, the arab community site Maktoob.com, which has 16.5 million users in countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Yahoo said, while there are more than 320 million Arabic speakers worldwide, less than 1% of online content is in Arabic. Online advertising is growing sharply in the … [Read more...]
Yahoo Is Revamping Its Search Pages
Yahoo announced today that it was working to develop a new search page design that "will deliver contextual results that are more relevant to users' queries." Larry Cornett, Vice President for Yahoo of Search Products and Design, said the redesigned page, which is still being tested, "will help people find things they most want by providing them with a "Web of objects" instead a list of Web … [Read more...]
Google Launches Official “Caffeine” Search Site
Last week we told you that Google was changing its organic search algorithm, which it has labeled “Caffeine". Now Google has released an official site where you can see what results a search term will return in the new Google Caffeine search: You can click here and see how your site(s) will rank in the new Google Search … [Read more...]
Google Is Changing Its Search Algorithm: Will “Caffeine” Impact PPC?
Google is undergoing a major change to its organic search algorithm, which it has labeled "Caffeine". According to the official Google announcement : """"For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google's web search. It's the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, … [Read more...]