Why ChatGPT Ads deserve a place in your 2027 media plan
Cheap inventory and low competition make ChatGPT Ads worth testing. But Google’s distribution advantage may make it short-lived.
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DuckDuckGo usage stats
Interesting DuckDuckGo usage stats. Includes data on searches, market share, employees and more.
Microsoft Bing usage and revenue stats (new data)
Interesting Bing user stats. Includes data on visits, revenue, market share and more.
iPhone users and sales stats
Key iPhone user stats. Includes data on sales, market share and more.
iPhone vs Android statistics
Compare the latest iPhone vs. Android statistics, including market share, users, sales, app spending, and top-selling smartphones worldwide.
Top 10 SEO news stories of 2025
SEO vs. GEO. AI Mode expands. AI Overviews kill clicks. Goodbye, num=100. These were among the most popular and biggest SEO stories of 2025.
How to create content that works for search and generative engines
Understand the key differences between search rankings and AI citations, and how to create content that performs in both.
Is Google ‘stealing’ your international search traffic with translations? Here’s what we found.
Is Google translating your content without sending users to your site? Here's what’s really happening and how to protect your traffic.
App Store vs. Google Play: Tailoring your ASO strategy for maximum impact
One ASO strategy doesn’t fit all. Here are platform-specific tips for optimizing apps on Apple’s App Store and Google Play.
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.
Top 15 SEO stories of 2024
Google leaks and endpoints. AI Overviews. The death of beloved features. These were among the most popular and biggest SEO stories of 2024.
ChatGPT search vs. Google: A deep dive analysis of 62 queries
A detailed analysis of ChatGPT search and Google's performance across 62 queries, with scoring metrics and practical examples.
Google’s huge search market share loss wasn’t real: Data revised
While it wasn't as dramatic a drop as first reported, Google has been consistently losing U.S. search market share since August 2023.
Did Google really lose search market share to Microsoft Bing in April?
Google lost search market share in the U.S., North America, globally and more regions. Meanwhile, Bing and Yahoo grew. Is the data accurate?
Is ChatGPT the Google Search killer we’ve been expecting?
The next Google won’t do what Google does. Could that be OpenAI? Sam Altman shares his vision for combining LLMs and a search engine.
Google: Apple rejected Microsoft Bing deal over quality and advertising worries
Microsoft claims Google, which pays Apple up to $19 billion a year to be the default search engine on its products, blocked the sale.
One year later: Little change to Microsoft Bing’s search market share
Despite lots of hype and hope from Microsoft, Google still dominates search – though Bing has made tiny gains in the U.S. and worldwide.
PPC 2023 in review: UA sunsets, Google antitrust trial, X’s downfall and more
If you expected a boring year, you were wrong. Let's explore the most significant changes and updates in PPC that happened in 2023.
Report: Yandex search engine for sale
Yandex, the dominant search and online advertising platform is Russia since 1997, has been in turmoil since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
No, ChatGPT isn’t stealing Google’s search market share
Any impact of ChatGPT on Google's search dominance is overblown at this point, as ChatGPT only has 2% of Google's monthly traffic.
Google CEO details how Chrome helped grow Google Search
We also now know exactly how much Google paid to be the default search engine on multiple devices and browsers: $26.3 billion in 2021.
The new Bing has failed to take any market share from Google after six months
Microsoft disputes the data, which shows Bing's market share is actually lower in 2023 than it was in 2022 – before new Bing launched.
These 2 charts show Microsoft Bing’s search market share problem
If Microsoft was hoping the new Bing would steal search market share from Google, well, the opposite seems to have happened.
This day in search marketing history: February 6
AdWords announces Enhanced Campaigns, plus: more Google Shopping ads, Toolbar PageRank, GSC updates, AMP change and more.
This day in search marketing history: February 2
Google's revamped Partners program, plus: Bing again denies copying Google results, YouTube using Amazon's algorithm and more.
This day in search marketing history: January 5
Google AdWords introduces click-to-call ads, plus: IndexNow WordPress plugin, AdWords 2x budget change, search being solved and more.
Yandex CEO and founder resigns following sanctions
Arkady Volozh's departure is the latest in a tumultuous period for Russia's search engine since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Australia’s showdown with Google has profound implications for domestic businesses and other digital platforms
The proposed legislation could create an untenable position for search engines in Australia, and Google’s threat to shut down search could affect traffic and domestic businesses across sectors.
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.
Strange bedfellows Google and Firefox renew their ‘default search’ partnership
Firefox extends 2017 deal with Google as it seeks to diversify revenues.
5 tips for starting international PPC
Be ready to watch for nuances of your targeted regions and adapt your strategy on a regional basis as you begin to track performance.
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.
Google expands App campaigns search inventory on iOS browsers
Conversions won’t be available via third-party tools.
SMX Overtime: The new realities of local search
SEO expert Damian Rollison offers insights into the sites that matter for local search and ranking besides Google My Business, and why you should put some time into managing all of them.
DuckDuckGo a new ‘default search’ option for Chrome, is it time to start paying attention?
The upstart search engine's visibility has been growing.
DuckDuckGo is growing fast but not enough to grab SEOs’ attention
The search engine's share is small but some of its metrics are better than Bing's, according to a third party analysis.
Google ordered to submit search index to state sponsorship in Russia
Google has a 45 percent search market share in Russia, second only to Yandex.
Report: 57% of traffic now from smartphones and tablets
BrightEdge also reported that mobile vs. desktop queries produce different rankings nearly 80% of the time.
Analyst: Google’s default search deal worth $3 billion to frenemy Apple
Bernstein analyst says that payments by Google to Apple this year might be worth as much as $3 billion.