Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search
Jun 27, 2009 at 12:31am ET by Matt McGee
An extraordinary day of breaking news on Thursday led to record-breaking traffic spikes as people searched online for information about the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and, especially, Michael Jackson. And just like their counterparts in traditional media, the news divisions of Google, Yahoo, and Bing responded with sometimes extraordinary measures to ensure they were giving searchers the most accurate and current news available.
Below, a look not only at the extreme traffic spikes that took place, but also an insider's look at what happened as each search engine -- and Wikipedia -- grappled w [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Search Engines: Facebook, Search Engines: News Search Engines, Search Engines: Twitter, Search Engines: Wikipedia, Stats: Search Behavior, Top News, Yahoo: News, Yahoo: Search
Russian Roulette: McAfee Details Web’s Riskiest Search Terms
Jun 9, 2009 at 3:05pm ET by Matt McGee
Somewhere online right now there's a music fan who's big on free downloads, likes Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" but doesn't know the lyrics, is looking for free ringtones, uses MySpace, likes to play solitaire and wants the latest game cheats. Like many of us, s/he uses a search engine to find all of these things.
This person may as well be playing Russian roulette.
In a recent report (PDF), online security company McAfee says those are some of the most dangerous search terms on the web.
That's just a sample of the report's list of the 50 riskiest search terms in the U.S. "Maximum R [...]
Filed in: Ask: Web Search, Google: Security, Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, SEO: Spamming, Stats: General, Top News, Yahoo: Search
Did Bing Leapfrog Yahoo? Not Exactly
Jun 5, 2009 at 3:42pm ET by Greg Sterling
We saw the same headline, based on data issued by StatCounter from Thursday. These data reportedly show that yesterday the share of searches went like this:
Google: 71.47 percent
Bing: 16.28 percent
Yahoo: 10.22 percent
On a global basis the company said it saw a similar trend:
Google: 87.62 percent
Bing: 5.62 percent
Yahoo: 5.13 percent
To get a reality check on these numbers and discover whether Bing had in fact surpassed Yahoo we reached out to Hitwise, Nielsen, comScore and Compete. We're still waiting to get data or updates from these sources. But the charts and [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Microsoft: Bing, Stats: Compete, Stats: Hitwise, Stats: NetRatings, Stats: Popularity, Stats: comScore, Top News, Yahoo: Search
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