Stats: Popularity
Aug 19, 2008 at 8:31am by Barry Schwartz
Survey Says: Google Leads In Consumer Satisfaction
Google Leads in Search Satisfaction from adAge.com reports that Google not only is leading in the University of Michigan and ForeSee Results in American Consumer Satisfaction Index, but is also “surging” in growth.
Google scored an 86 in the index, up 10.3% in consumer satisfaction from last year. While Yahoo was down 2.5% to 77, Microsoft’s MSN remained at 75, and Ask.com dropped 1.3% to 74. AOL did increase by 3% to 69, but lost a lot from the year prior and is still not where they were then, which was 74.
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Jul 18, 2008 at 6:31pm by Danny Sullivan
comScore: Yahoo & Microsoft Gain Share But Google Breaks 7 Billion Searches
It’s search popularity statistics time again, and I’m starting off with
the latest figures from comScore. Finally, a change — Google slips while
Yahoo and Microsoft gain. Trouble for the Big G? Not really — because in
terms of raw number of searches, June 2008 was another record breaker for
Google.
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Jun 23, 2008 at 8:56am by Barry Schwartz
Google’s Corporate America Reputation Ranks Top
Google has best reputation in U.S., airlines fall: survey from Reuters reports on a recent Harris Interactive study that showed (PDF) Google is the number one company ranked for corporate responsibility in America. Google took over the number one spot from Microsoft, who is now ranked number ten. Here is the top 10:
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Jun 19, 2008 at 2:35pm by Danny Sullivan
Compete: Yahoo Traffic Better Than First Reported
As part of my
Compete: Google Keeps Stomping The Others In Search Traffic article
earlier this week, I posted the exact rules that Compete uses to calculate
search share, along with commentary on why digging into this is becoming
increasingly important. A reader noted the rules didn’t seem right. As a
result, Compete stepped up and recalculated things — causing Yahoo’s search
search and volume for May 2008 to rise significantly (from 13.3% to 18.6%).
Perhaps good news to late for those
departing executives
(and see here
and
here).
I’ve got nothing but kudos for Compete sharing this level of detail, and
it’s something I’m in the process of trying to get from the other ratings
services as well. We depend so much on these figures to gauge the market
"health" of various services, but how exactly they are compiled gets
relatively little attention. I’m keeping at that as part of my ongoing
project. In the meantime, please see the original post for updated figures
(at the bottom in the postscript), plus a look at why digging into the stats
is so important.
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Jun 17, 2008 at 5:35pm by Danny Sullivan
Compete: Google Keeps Stomping The Others In Search Traffic
The latest search engine share stats for May 2008
from Compete show Google hitting
yet again
another high. Let’s do the numbers, including the debate on whether
Microsoft Live Search Club searches should be counted plus how everyone
might start generating queries in new ways.
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May 29, 2008 at 6:58am by Eric Papczun
Searching The Web For News Video
Recent data from comScore Video Metrix shows that consumers viewed 11.5 billion online videos in March of 2008, a whopping 64% gain versus March of 2007. This means that 73.7% of the US Internet population is now watching video online. While videos of pandas sneezing on YouTube make up millions of these monthly video views, consumers are also increasingly turning to the Internet to watch news video. But how are consumers finding the wealth of news video content available on the Web? And are search engines playing a major role? DoubleClick Performics, in partnership with ROI Research, recently conducted the Searching for Video News Study to gain some insight into how consumers are using search to find news, as well as if they’re getting what they’re looking for.
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May 23, 2008 at 3:58pm by Danny Sullivan
Search Share Compared: Ratings Service Faceoff, June 2007 To April 2008
With the latest
search
popularity stats now in from
Hitwise,
Nielsen,
comScore, and
Compete, it’s time
to pit them against each other and see what they agree — and don’t agree –
about in terms of search engine popularity.
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May 23, 2008 at 3:45pm by Danny Sullivan
Compete: Yes, Google Hits New Search Share High
Compete makes it a quadfecta! No real surprise, the latest search engine
share stats
out from Compete show Google has hit a new high — just as did previous
stats out this month from
Hitwise,
Nielsen and
comScore. Plus, an
interesting look at how much search traffic Microsoft’s Live Search Club
generates.
NOTE: ON THE PIE CHART ABOVE, AOL’S LABEL IS SHOWN OVER THE "ASK" SLICE AND THE ASK FIGURE SHOULD BE 3.5%.
THE PIE SLICE PROPORTIONS THEMSELVES ARE CORRECT. SORRY I DON’T HAVE TIME TO FIX
THE LABELS NOW!
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May 22, 2008 at 1:51pm by Danny Sullivan
comScore: Google Gets High Again In US Search Share
As with recent search stats from
Hitwise and
Nielsen, comScore’s
latest stats
for April 2008 search engine share in the United States shows Google hitting a
new high, breaking through the 60% mark for the first time with comScore’s
measurements.
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May 20, 2008 at 1:48pm by Danny Sullivan
Nielsen: Google Hits New Search Share High
Another ratings service shows Google hitting an all-time high for search
share in the United States. This is according to April 2008 search share stats
from Nielsen Online that were
released (PDF)
today. Last week, Hitwise also reported Google hitting a new record. Microsoft
also dips below the 10 percent mark for the first time.
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May 14, 2008 at 12:30pm by Danny Sullivan
Google & Other Search Engines Dominate Traffic Drivers To Wikipedia
When writing about
Powerset this week, I covered how its hopes to gain Wikipedia users was
complicated by the fact that Wikipedia itself gets so many people from search,
rather than direct navigation.
New stats (PDF)
from Nielsen Online reaffirm this — four of the five top referring sites to
Wikipedia are search engines, with Google by far the leader.
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May 14, 2008 at 12:15pm by Danny Sullivan
Hitwise: Google Again Hits New High; Microsoft & Yahoo Again New Lows
Hitwise
released the latest statistics for search engine share in the United States
for April 2008. Google has again hit a new high, jumping up 0.65% from the
prior
month’s high, to 68% of the US search market. Microsoft and Yahoo hit all-time
lows — though Yahoo, at least, only drops by 0.1% further from its low last
month. Microsoft dropped about 0.4%. Highs are based on data going back to
August 2006.
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Apr 23, 2008 at 12:05pm by Danny Sullivan
Microsoft Dips In Compete’s Revised March 08 Search Figures
When I did my Ratings
Service Faceoff: Search Share Compared, June 2007 To March 2008 post last
week, I noted that Microsoft had an odd increase according to Compete for March
2008. The company
now says this was due to
Live Search Club traffic
that it shouldn’t have counted. Microsoft’s US share for March 2008 drops from
10.2% to 8.5% as a result. From Compete’s blog post:
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Apr 21, 2008 at 8:52pm by Danny Sullivan
Ratings Service Faceoff: Search Share Compared, June 2007 To March 2008
I’ve now compiled the latest
search
popularity stats from Hitwise, Compete,
comScore, and
Nielsen Online. That means it’s time to put them all together
once again, to see
what a "panel" of ratings services agree on — and don’t agree on — in terms of
search engine popularity.
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Apr 21, 2008 at 8:47pm by Danny Sullivan
Nielsen: Google Continues High But Others Rise In Share
Continuing from previous search stats from Hitwise, Compete,
and comScore,
Nielsen Online is
now
out (PDF file) with search engine share figures in
the United States for March 2008. Similar to Hitwise and comScore, Google
remains at a high but unlike some of the others, Microsoft and Yahoo come off
lows.
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Apr 21, 2008 at 9:23am by Greg Sterling
Google Named Top Global Brand — Again
Millward Brown, a unit of mega ad agency WPP, has named Google the world’s top brand in its annual “Top 100 Most Powerful Brands” survey (report available here). The Guardian UK also covers the study. Millward Brown calculates the ranking based on corporate earnings, consumer survey data, projected future growth, and a host of subjective intangibles.
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Apr 15, 2008 at 6:48pm by Danny Sullivan
comScore: New Google High, New Yahoo & Microsoft Lows, Though Both Rise In Raw Searches
Continuing from previous search stats from Hitwise
and Compete,
comScore is now
out with search engine share in
the United States for March 2008. Similar to Hitwise, Google hits a new high
while Microsoft and Yahoo hit new lows. But in terms of raw searches, Yahoo and
Microsoft showed gains.
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Apr 15, 2008 at 3:12pm by Danny Sullivan
Compete: Microsoft Gains Share; Google Hits New High In Raw Searches
Having covered
Hitwise stats yesterday, today I move on to the
latest stats from Compete on search engine share in
the United States for March 2008. Unlike Hitwise, they show Google taking a very
slight dip last month, with Microsoft getting a slight rise. But while Google’s
percentage share dropped, on a number of searches basis it hit a new high.
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Mar 4, 2008 at 8:42am by Barry Schwartz
Google: Not American’s Most Admired Company (But Almost)
FORTUNE magazine released its America’s Most Admired Companies of 2008 list, and guess what? Google was not rated number one. Hard to believe? Well, they did make number four. Apple took the top position, which doesn’t surprise me since everyone I know is buying Macs, even oureditor-in-chief, Danny.
Google ranked at number four while Microsoft ranked at sixteen. Yahoo did not make the list.
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Feb 25, 2008 at 8:21am by Barry Schwartz
Survey Says: Google Top Brand In UK
Google takes UK’s top brand spot from the BBC reports Google took the BBC’s top spot in a Superbrands survey of the top brand in the UK. In fact, Google is the only company established after 1990 that is found within the top 50 brands in this survey.
Microsoft secured the second position of this survey. Yahoo was found in position 102 and Ask.com was found in position 379. You can see the full top 500 list as a PDF document over here. The top ten were:
