According to comscore, Google’s worldwide search share declined from 67.9 percent in June to 64.1 percent in July. This drop was largely due changes in the way comScore measures search and Web traffic in China, Brazil, and Russia. As a result, Baidu’s global search market share went from 7.7 percent in June to 12.9 percent in July (based almost entirely on its strength in China alone). That … [Read more...]
Marchex Connect Named a Winner of the “Best Search Engine Marketing Technology Platform for SMBs” at Search Engine Strategies
Marchex Connect owned by Marchex, a company in our Domain Parking Stock Index, was named a winner of the “Best Search Engine Marketing Technology Platform for SMBs” – small-to-medium-sized businesses at today’s Search Engine Strategies 2008 Conference and Expo being held in San Jose, California. “This honor is further recognition of Marchex’s position as the leading … [Read more...]
T-Mobile 1st to Sell Google Phone
According to a report by the New York Times, T-Mobile will launch a mobile phone powered by Google Inc's Android software, making it the first operator to do so and posing a direct threat to Apple Inc's (AAPL) popular iPhone. The phone will hit the stores in the U.S. before Christmas, perhaps as early as October. The new device will have a touch screen like the iPhone and other smartphones … [Read more...]
Yahoo Spent $36 Million Not to Get Bought Out
According to a SEC filing, Yahoo shelled out $36 million in the first half of 2008 to the outside advisers that helped the company avoid getting bought out by Microsoft Corp. and the proxy threat from activist investor Carl Icahn. Yahoo hired investment banks Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Moelis & Co., and the law firm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, … [Read more...]
Tucows Reports For Quarter Ending June 30: Parking Revenues Down
Tucows reported its financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2008 today. Net income per share fell to $.02 for the six months ending June 30, 2008 against $.05 per share profit for the first six months of last year. Elliot Noss, President and CEO of Tucows. is quoted as saying: "Our portfolio of high value domain names continued to make an impressive contribution. We note … [Read more...]
AdWeek: Advertisers Against Yahoo-Google Deal
According to an article in AdWeek within the next month, the Department of Justice will decide whether to block the deal Google struck with Yahoo to serve ads on some of its search results pages. The companies are set to implement the deal in early October. The DOJ has asked a broad range of executives for input into what the deal will mean for the ad industry. Microsoft, is urging … [Read more...]
Yahoo Gaining on Google??
A new study from search-marketing firm Covario, shows that customers representing more than 120 technology brands at major tech companies such as Adobe, Lenovo and Intel, spent 14.3% of their search advertising budgets on Yahoo in the second quarter of 2008, up from 10.3% for the prior quarter, but still down from 18% a year ago. Google’s share of those customers’ search advertising dollars … [Read more...]