Data: Google monthly search volume dwarfs rivals because of mobile advantage
Google likely has 30+ billion queries per month across platforms.
Topic: Desktop search
Desktop Search: Google May Have Peaked Last Year According To comScore
Late this afternoon comScore released its monthly report on US desktop search market share. Google controlled 63.8 percent of all PC search volume in August. Microsoft (Bing) had 20.6 percent and Yahoo saw 12.7 percent. Bing was up a fraction of a point at Google’s apparent expense, while Yahoo was flat. Month over month Google […]
Analyst: Mobile Continues To Take Share From Desktop Search
Later today comScore will release its US search market share numbers for December 2012. Based on early release information from Wall Street analysts this is what the numbers will be: Google: 66.7 percent (vs. 67 percent in November) Bing: 16.3 percent (vs. 16.2 percent in November) Yahoo: 12.2 percent (vs. 12.1 percent in November) Ask: […]
Will Google See $6.25 Billion In Mobile Ad Revenue Next Year?
During the earnings call last week after Google announced massive quarterly revenues ($9.72 billion), CEO Larry Page casually dropped the following remark about the company’s mobile business: “We’re also seeing a huge positive revenue impact from mobile, which has grown 2.5x in the last 12 months to a run rate of over $2.5 billion.” Claire […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 3, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 19, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Asks For Formal Role In Microsoft Anti-Trust Dispute
New Google filing presses for role in Microsoft case from the Seattle PI covers how Google has now formally applied for a direct role to participate in how a judge evaluates whether Microsoft’s desktop search in the Vista operating system violates an anti-trust agreement.
Google Desktop Now Available For Linux
Google Desktop is now available for those running Linux as their operating system. You’ll find Google Desktop for Linux for download here.. Google Desktop for Linux was developed by Google’s Beijing engineering team and runs on Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, and Red Flag 5. The available languages include English, French, […]
Google Wants DOJ To Continue Microsoft Antitrust Restrictions
Google seeks to extend Microsoft antitrust decree from Reuters reports that Google has asked a federal judge to lengthen the period when Microsoft’s operating system is subject to antitrust reviews in order to ensure desktop search players can remain competitive with Microsoft.
Microsoft To Change Desktop Search In Vista Over Google Antitrust Claim
Microsoft to change Vista after Google complaint from Reuters reports that Microsoft has agreed to make changes to their Vista desktop search application to make it easier for people to change the default search provider. Microsoft will make the changes in reaction to a Google antitrust complaint lodged with the US Justice Department. Google claimed […]
Google Claims Antitrust Foul Over Microsoft’s Desktop Search In Vista
Both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have good stories out about how Google is asking the US Justice Department to investigate whether the desktop search tool built into Microsoft’s Vista operating system violates a 2002 anti-trust action settlement that the US reached with Microsoft preventing it from designing operating systems that […]
Version 5 Of Google Desktop Released
Google Desktop has released a version five with new features and updates. Kevin Tom, Product Manager of Google Desktop, explains that they added: A new sidebar with “completely new look and feel.” A gadget redesign to make them “easy to tell apart, easy to read, and easy on the eyes.” Improvements to desktop search by […]