How many users does Clubhouse have? 40+ Clubhouse stats
List of key Clubhouse stats, with a focus on users and user growth.
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Perplexity AI user and revenue statistics
Perplexity is one of the fastest-growing AI search engines. We break down the latest Perplexity stats, including growth, revenue, and more.
Stripe revenue and growth statistics
Important stats about Stripe. Includes key statistics on country-by-country availability, valuation, investments and more.
Discord user and funding statistics: How many people use Discord?
Interesting Discord user stats. Includes data on users, funding, employees and more.
Patreon: Subscriber and creator statistics for 2026
Important Patreon user statistics. Includes data on user, funding, company value and more.
Substack user and revenue statistics
Check out these interesting Substack user stats, including data on subscribers, creators, funding, and more.
Bluesky statistics: How many people use Bluesky?
Complete Bluesky statistics: 25.47M users, app downloads, funding, and global usage data across key markets.
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The growing force of women in tech
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Google Ads chief Sridhar Ramaswamy leaves to join venture firm
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Sustainable competitive advantages in digital marketing
Columnist Eric Enge explains how investing in long-term marketing initiatives can give you a huge advantage over your competition.
Microsoft’s $15 Million Check-in: Will Redmond Buy Foursquare?
Microsoft has invested $15 million in Foursquare and said it will license the former’s location data according to news released yesterday. Foursquare aspires to be “the location layer for the internet.” With real-time feedback about local data accuracy, based on user movements and check-ins, Foursquare is becoming a stronger and stronger source of local information. However […]
Rand Fishkin Steps Down As The CEO Of Moz, Sarah Bird New CEO
Rand Fishkin, the cofounder of Moz, formerly known as SEOmoz, is stepping down from his role as the CEO of the company today. Rand announced the news on his personal blog about a month ago. He said it was because he felt he was “out of his depth, and poorly suited, especially from an emotional […]
Tempo “Calendar Assistant” Uses Search Like Google Now
Smart calendar app Tempo announced a $10 million “series A” funding round this morning. The app aims to replace the native calendar apps on smartphones. Needless to say, that’s a tall order. However, the technology behind the app is derived from the same US Defense Department (DARPA) SRI-led research that produced Apple’s Siri and Yahoo’s Summly, […]
Blekko Lays Off Eight, Raises $6 Million More
Earlier this week blekko, which just introduced a bold new UI, had a reduction in force. Eight people were let go “as part of an effort to reduce costs,” said CEO Rich Skrenta, who added, “blekko’s revenues are growing and these cost reductions will help us as we work toward profitability.” Skrenta told me by […]
Samsung, Intel Invest In “Anticipatory Search” Startup Expect Labs
Expect Labs, which is a small startup in the San Francisco Bay Area, has a very impressive list of investors. Today the company announced a new funding round, though the figures weren’t disclosed. Investors are the venture or investment arms of Intel, Samsung and Telefonica. Telefonica is the world’s fourth largest telco and owns mobile […]
Flush With New Cash, Structured Data Engine FindTheBest Ready To Make Its Move
It was unclear what to call FindTheBest when it first launched roughly two years ago: “anti-search engine,” “decision engine” or “comparison engine.” Today, it may not matter. The company just raised $11 million and has 22 million monthly users. (The site has raised $17 million to date.) CEO (and former DoubleClick founder) Kevin O’Connor sees […]
With $14 Million More Q&A Site ChaCha Soldiers On
Q&A is a great idea that really hasn’t worked. Although Yahoo Answers and a few others are still around — and Ask returned to Q&A as a way to differentiate from Google and general search — the segment is littered with dead bodies, including Facebook’s Q&A offering. The outlook for Quora in its current form […]
Conductor Lands $20 Million Financing Round
Conductor has announced what it says is the biggest financing round ever in the SEO industry: a $20 million Series C investment led by Investor Growth Capital. In a news release, Conductor says it’ll use the money to continue development of its Searchlight SEO platform and to scale the company’s operations internationally. Conductor launched its […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 1, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Video: Google Speaks About Search Quality Raters Google’s head of web spam, Matt Cutts, has published a video talking about a topic that Google has never really talked about publicly before […]
SEOmoz Raises New Round Of Funding: $18 Million
SEOmoz, the SEO toolset company, has announced they have successfully raised another $18 million in venture capital from Foundry Group and Ignition Partners. Foundry Group put in $15 million and Ignition Partners put in $3 million. Co-founder and CEO of SEOmoz, Rand Fishkin detailed the financials, growth, future plans and management changes of SEOmoz. One […]
Trada Secures Additional $9M In Funding From Google Ventures & Foundry Group
Trada, the crowdsourced PPC marketplace, has secured an additional $9 million in funding from their existing investors, Google Ventures and Foundry Group. This additional seed of Series D financing brings the total money raised for Trada to $17 million. Trada basically lets you offload your PPC management onto a community of SEM experts, who spend […]
FindTheBest Succeeds Where Google Squared Failed
During his written responses to questions from the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt identified a range of competitors that Google faces in the market today. Some were well-known and some more obscure. One of the smaller companies that Schmidt mentioned was FindTheBest. He identified the company in a list of […]
Waze Craze Brings $30 Million For Growth, China Expansion
Waze is a somewhat unlikely success story. The social navigation and traffic app has just passed 7 million users globally and also announced another $30 million in funding, bringing its total to nearly $60 million. It also said that one of its new investors is Hong Kong magnate Li Ka Shing, who will help the […]
Russian Search Engine Yandex Leads $30 Million Investment In Blekko
Blekko is the either the fourth US search engine or the third if you no longer consider Yahoo a search engine. And the company has been able to maintain visibility and stir the pot with its persistent criticism of Google search results being spam-filled. Now Blekko has secured $30 million in new funding from a […]
Another Company Outed for Paid Links: Sequoia-Backed Milanoo
A story on TechCrunch today notes that a Sequoia-backed shopping site called Milanoo appears to be spamming Google with hoards of paid links that are helping them rank for things like [cheap dresses] and [evening gown]. They got news of the situation by way of a site called Digital Due Diligence that checked Milanoo’s backlink profile […]
Google Ventures Backs Another Marketing Company, Hubspot
Hubspot, a software company that makes tools for online marketing, has garnered a $32 million series D funding round from Google Ventures, along with Sequoia Capital and Salesforce.com. The firm’s original investors also participated in the round. Hubspot, founded in 2006 by two MIT alums, offers businesses a suite of software to help them attract […]
With So Much Money Is A Facebook Search Engine Inevitable?
The news broke yesterday that Facebook was getting a whopping $500 million from Goldman Sachs and existing investor Digital Sky Technologies at a valuation of $50 billion. None of this has been confirmed by the company but it’s being very widely reported. Apparently the Goldman investment will enable the company’s most wealthy clients to “get […]
Yelp Plans To Go Public
Local search powerhouse Yelp is planning to go public at some point in the future. That’s something that Yelp COO Geoff Donaker confirmed during his keynote conversation today at our SMX East conference in New York City. “We don’t see any reason not to be an independent company for years to come. Will we go […]
Digg v4: How To Successfully Kill A Community
Late last month, Digg.com released version 4 of the popular social news site and the response was horrific. In a web poll from Mashable.com, users overwhelmingly selected the previous version as the better site with version 3 garnering 78.4% of the total votes. I have been an avid user of Digg since 2007, spending countless […]
SMX Advanced 2010 Slide Video: Raising Capital During & After The Great Recession
Raising Capital During & After The Great Recession Presentations from SMX Advanced Seattle, June 2010 The stock market is up and the banking crisis appears over, but that doesn’t mean that funding from sources like VC, private equity and IPOs is flowing. Intrigued about or considering raising capital? This session is for you. [flv:https://searchengineland.com/video_assets/adv10/ppt/RaisingCapitalDuringRecession.flv 364 […]
Google, US Gov’t Back Same Data Mining Startup
Their objectives may be different but both Google and the “investment arm of the CIA” are funding the same startup: Recorded Future. According to a piece in Wired both In-Q-Tel (the CIA investment firm) and Google will have a seat on the company’s board. This is reportedly the first time the government and Google have […]
Crowdsourced SEM “Marketplace” Trada Raises $5.75M From Google Ventures & Others
Trada announced a $5.75 million “C” round this morning. It was led by Google Ventures and early investor Foundry Group. Trada CEO Niel Robertson told me yesterday that the money will be used for to get into display (and eventually video and mobile), as well as to expand into non-US markets and develop new tools […]
Foursquare Hints At Evolution After Getting $20 Million
After a protracted set of M&A discussions with Yahoo and Facebook (and perhaps others), Foursquare announced that it had secured $20 million in funding from several VCs: Union Square Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. CEO Dennis Crowley discussed the funding and how it would be used in his blog post: With this new […]
Marin Gets D Round, Hearst Buys iCrossing
Playing out according to the rumor that surfaced a couple of months ago, media company Hearst has acquired marquee SEM firm iCrossing. The Wall Street Journal is reporting the acquisition price is about $325 million with performance and financial goals that, if achieved, “could push the purchase price above $400 million, according to other people […]
Green Billionaires: Larry, Sergey And Google Investor John Doerr
Yes, billionaires do have a lot of “green” but they can also be green and push green causes, technologies and issues. Because it’s Earth Day and because lists and slideshows of rich people drive page views Forbes has put together what it deems the world’s greenest billionaires. Investor Vinod Khosla is ranked first. Larry Page […]