Google’s search market share drops below 90% for first time since 2015
In a surprising development, Google's global search market share was less than 90% for the final three months of 2024.
Topic: Ecosia
Microsoft Advertising: A comprehensive guide
Microsoft Ads offers unique targeting, lower costs and fewer competitors. Learn how to harness its potential for B2B, ecommerce and more.
Bing Search back online after 5-hour outage
Third-party search services that use Bing are also offline, including DuckDuckGo, ChatGPT Search, Copilot and more.
How to measure organic traffic in GA4
Monitor and improve your organic traffic with Google Analytics 4. Learn key dimensions and metrics to assess your organic search performance.
Apple has 19 billion reasons not to build a Google Search rival
"Apple Search" is not in the works as the company believes its deal with Google works better for its customers.
This day in search marketing history: March 12
Go inside a Google search quality meeting, plus: Google core search ranking algorithm update, how Google prices and ranks ads and more.
How to update content and dates for SEO in 2023
Google says that only significant content changes should lead to updated article dates. Here are a few ways you can approach this.
The modern search landscape: How and where to reach your target audience
Today's web users go beyond traditional search engines to search. Learn about the platforms that should be on every search marketer’s radar.
Neeva seeks to expand user base with free subscriptions
Search marketers will have to pay attention if Neeva can grow its market share. But without search ads, options may be limited for PPC practitioners.
Google tackles pollution and competitors with Maps updates; Thursday’s daily brief
Plus, the hallmarks of bad content marketing.
Mozilla tests Bing as the default search engine for 1% of users
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Cleaning house: how Google and Yelp handle fake reviews; Tuesday’s daily brief
Plus, four tools to check for your title changes in SERPs
The shifting sands of SERPs; Tuesday’s daily brief
And, why you should consider non-Google advertising.
Google Ads API, Partner badges, and reputation algorithms; Friday’s daily brief
Plus, check out our updated guide to Bing SEO
Google drops the auction from its search choice screen
Giving in to pressure from regulators and competitors, Google’s updated screen will roll out in September and search engines will appear based on market share instead of bidding per user.
Has automation actually changed the way you do your job?; Wednesday’s daily brief
Plus, Google goes organic with its hotel search listings
Clubhouse, Shopify, and unconfirmed algorithm updates; Thursday’s daily brief
Plus, EU search choice screen pleases almost no one
Google’s search choice screen had virtually no effect on search market share, perhaps by design
Auction participants say the model favors ad-heavy search engines and redirects their profits to Google.
DuckDuckGo’s focus on privacy-minded users pushes it past 100 million searches in a single day
Although it’s a long way from being a Google competitor, DuckDuckGo’s business model may serve as a playbook for new search engines.
What would it take for new search engines to succeed?
Neeva and You.com seek to pick up segments of users overlooked by Google, and with shifting user preferences and increased governmental scrutiny, there might be an opportunity.
Ecosia to join Chrome v81 default search engine choices
The not-for-profit search engine joins Google, Bing, Yahoo! and DuckDuckGo as an option in 47 markets.
DuckDuckGo has other ideas for Google’s EU search choice screen
The changes include more search engine options and an introductory screen aimed at reducing bias.
DuckDuckGo, Info.com crowd out Bing in Google’s Android search options
The auction results are in: Bing will only appear in the UK, but DuckDuckGo and Info.com will be choices in all territories.
Ecosia says it will boycott ‘search choice’ auction on Android in Europe
Will other European search engines also reject Google's antitrust remedy?
Google to offer mandated ‘search choice’ to EU Android users in 2020
However, use of an auction for inclusion on the choice screen has some search rivals complaining.
Search Engine Land’s Guide to Bing SEO
Bing accounts for 26.5% of all desktop searches in the U.S., according to Comscore (April 2021). With the recent prevalence of working from home, people are spending more time on their desktop computers, which might also mean that more people are now using Bing. If you do nothing, then you’re leaving your competitors with the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 3, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Suspends Local Listing Ads — For Now Today Google announced that the company was suspending Local Listing Ads, for the time being: “Starting today, we will no longer accept new […]