iCrossing: Google’s Share Of Search Almost 77 Percent
Oct 27, 2009 at 8:00am ET by Greg Sterling
We received some interesting data from search agency iCrossing yesterday. The data show US search market share percentages and distribution quite different than the major traffic metrics firms. The company says its numbers are "based on a large representative sample of Fortune 1000 companies, across all major verticals," which use its search tracking tools.
Accordingly the iCrossing data show US September natural search market share to be the following:
Google 76.7 percent
Bing (increasingly slightly from Aug to) 8.2 percent
Yahoo (decreasing to) 11.1 percent
AOL and Ask show "pre [...]
Filed in: Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Stats: Hitwise, Stats: Popularity, Stats: Size, Stats: comScore, Top News
The Myth Of Great Search Engine Results
Oct 23, 2009 at 6:54pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Too much time is often spent about the new features the various major search engines roll out or the latest deals they cut. Here at Search Engine Land, we can be as guilty of that as anyone. To correct it, I'll be spending more and more time highlighting poor quality search results that I encounter, in hopes of nudging the industry to improve things.
Canaries In The Search Mine
I've spoken and written for years that when it comes to search engines, I think there are two "canaries in the coal mine" that catch a whiff of something bad emanating from the search engines.
The first a [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Stats: Relevancy, Top News
Pew: Almost 20 Percent of Internet Users Update Status With Twitter (Or Other Social Net)
Oct 22, 2009 at 9:18am ET by Greg Sterling
Already widely reported from yesterday the Pew Internet & American Life almost 20 percent of US Internet users are on Twitter or updating their status with another social network: LinkedIn, MySpace or Facebook. According to the report:
Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% of internet users said they use a status-update service.
Three groups of internet users are mainly responsible for [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Stats: General, Twitter
Google Approaches 65% Market Share In Latest ComScore Survey
Oct 15, 2009 at 12:37am ET by Matt McGee
According to the latest comScore survey, Google's search market share climbed to just under 65% last month, and remains more than triple that of Yahoo, the second-place search engine.
ComScore pegs Google with 64.9% of all searches conducted during September 2009, up from 64.6% in August. Yahoo dropped from August's 19.3% to 18.8% in September. And Bing, in third place, showed minor growth from 9.3% to 9.4%.
Despite Google's small gains in market share, comScore says Google saw a slight drop in the number of searches -- but that could be due to September having one less day than Aug [...]
Filed in: Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Stats: Popularity, Stats: comScore, Yahoo: Search
UK Report: 1 in 3 Kids Think Top Search Rankings Most “Truthful”
Oct 8, 2009 at 9:39am ET by Greg Sterling
A new and wide ranging report from the UK regulatory agency Ofcom about media literacy finds that 32 percent of UK kids aged 12-15 years old believe that the links/listings shown at the top of search results are the most "truthful." Here's how the report summarized this finding:
Among children aged 12-15 who use the internet, almost all have experience of using search engine websites (94%).
Those who use search engine sites were shown a list of options and were asked to say which, if any, apply in terms of the way results are shown on search engine sites.
There is no clear consensus [...]
Filed in: Stats: General, Stats: Relevancy
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