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Contradicting other data, Compete says search traffic growing on the desktop
Firm argues number of searchers and searches per user have grown significantly on the PC since last year....
The Recirculation Gap: Why Google Sends More Traffic Than Its Search Market Share Suggests
How can publishers receive a greater percentage of search traffic from Google than the market share Google has in the U.S.? It’s likely...
September Search Share: Yahoo Continues Downward Slide
We’re getting the usual sneak peek at comScore data from financial analysts ahead of the official release tomorrow. In terms of the...
Compete.com: Google Slowly Losing Market Share, Bing Slowly Gaining
Compete.com has weighed in with its US search engine market share statistics, and the results mirror what others have been reporting in recent...
Compete Confirms Bing Gains
Last week both comScore and Hitwise showed gains for Bing. Meanwhile Google was off 2% according to both metrics firms. Today Compete released...
Google, Bing Up While AOL Hits All-Time Low: comScore December Search Data
Ahead of their official release, financial analysts released comScore’s December search data. Total search query volume, minus...
When Losers Are Winners: How Google Can “Lose” Search Share & Yet Still Stomp Yahoo
comScore’s out with new search market share figures. Yahoo’s up, but did it “game” its growth with new navigational...
Yahoo Top News Site, Google Second; People Spending More Time With Fewer Sites
According to November comScore data (published by TechCrunch) Google News is the second largest online news property in the world in terms of...
FDA Warnings To Pharma Caused Big Drop In Search Ads
The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued warning letters issued in late March, 2009 to a number of big pharmaceutical companies,...
Google Gains Volume, Bing Gains Share In August
Yesterday comScore reported search numbers for August. What they show is growth in overall search volume, including at Google sites (except...
Reports: Bing Users Click More, Search Deal With Yahoo Coming This Week
A report analyzing traffic and click-through rates from ad network Chikita finds that “Bing users are over 50% more likely to click an ad...
comScore: Bing Barely Gaines Share In June 2009
Now a third major ratings service has released search engine share figures for June 2009, and like the others, they show that Bing made only a...
At One Month, Bing Says Unique Users Up; Compete Says Barely Any Gain In Searches
A second major ratings service, Compete, has now released search engine share figures for June 2009 showing Microsoft’s new Bing service...
Hitwise: Bing Both Grows & Drops In June; Google Still Tops
Just in from Hitwise, the first month-to-month figures since the launch of Bing. And the figures show Bing has both gained and dropped in the...
Bing: comScore sees Gains; Compete Sees Same Old, Same Old
More early stats are coming in on how searchers are reacting to the Bing launch. comScore shows Microsoft’s Bing search engine continuing...
Did Bing Leapfrog Yahoo? Not Exactly
We saw the same headline, based on data issued by StatCounter from Thursday. These data reportedly show that yesterday the share of searches...
Celebrities, TV, & Taxes: Hottest Search Terms In February
Compete.com says we spent a lot of time searching for information about entertainers, TV, and taxes during January. The terms...
Search Market Share 2008: Google Grew, Yahoo & Microsoft Dropped & Stabilized
With 2008 behind us, I wanted to look back and plot how search engine market share changed over the year in the United States. No surprises...
