Apr 17, 2012 at 10:02am ET by Matt McGee

By the end of April, traffic to Blekko will likely have quadrupled since January 1st, and the company has a handful of reasons why it thinks that's happening. More on the explanation later; first, the numbers. The "slashtags" search engine has already seen a 337 percent gain in unique visitors this year. That's as of yesterday (Monday) afternoon, and there are still two weeks left in the month. Blekko shared the chart below from its internal analytics, showing a gain in unique IPs visiting the site from 1.58 million in December to 5.33 million so far in April. Blekko saw visits f [...]

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Survey Paradox: People Like Google But Not What It’s Doing

Mar 12, 2012 at 10:06am ET by Greg Sterling

Last week the Pew Internet Project released findings of a survey on search, personalization and targeted advertising. In a nutshell, survey respondents had a very positive view of search and the quality of search results. Yet the majority gave an unequivocal thumbs down to search personalization (and behavioral targeting). This isn't necessarily a contradiction or paradox in the abstract, but it is when you consider that the most popular search engine is moving aggressively in a direction most people say they don't want search to go. Here's our earlier coverage of the survey: Pew Repo [...]

New comScore Study Suggests 50 Percent Of Local-Mobile Search Happening In Apps

Feb 29, 2012 at 11:09am ET by Greg Sterling

Localeze, 15 Miles and comScore released findings from their 5th Local Search Study. The survey of 4,000 US adults (together with behavioral data) documents how consumers search for and find local business information across digital platforms. It's a pretty comprehensive study and there are a great many interesting pieces of data, some of which I've written up here and here. In this article I want to focus on a single finding: 49 percent of smartphone and tablet owners are using apps to find local information. On one level this is unremarkable and makes sense; apps are popular and there are [...]

msnNOW Is Driving More Traffic To Bing, But Is It Artifically Inflating Searches?

Feb 29, 2012 at 10:32am ET by Matt McGee

With its msnNOW site barely two weeks old, Microsoft is already reaping benefits on another property: increased traffic to its Bing search engine. But the way it's happening may also lead to artificial increases in Bing's market share numbers. First, the traffic stats: Experian Hitwise tells us that downstream traffic from msnNOW to Bing jumped 21 percent between the first and second weeks since msnNOW's launch on February 15th. That's in line with a separate report from Compete that says 23 percent of msnNOW users that didn't visit Bing in the week before launch did visit Bing after [...]

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DuckDuckGo Has Its First Million-Search Day

Feb 15, 2012 at 9:55am ET by Matt McGee

The growth chart continues to trend in the right direction for DuckDuckGo. It was just about three weeks ago that we wrote about the search engine setting its own record with 731,000 searches in a single day. To go from that to more than a million in a few weeks is impressive. Via a tweet yesterday, DuckDuckGo announced that it had its first day with a million direct searches. We received over 1,000,000 direct searches yesterday for the first time ever!duckduckgo.com/traffic.html— duckduckgo (@duckduckgo) February 14, 2012 The milestone happened on February 13th when Duck [...]

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