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Market Share of Search Engines 2006

According to ComScore.com, a market research provider, the share of Internet searches within 1.5 million English speakers worldwide in March 2006 are shown below (in percentage): Google: 42.7% Yahoo!:...

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How Search Engines Work

People use search engines to find the information that they want, but have you ever thought of how search engines actually work? Today, the big search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN find and...

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Google Search Market Share Growth

Google jumped from April’s 43.1% to May’s 44.1% in US search market share which is Google’s 10th consecutive month in market share gain according to ComScore. Yahoo remained in the second spot with...

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Ask Celebrates July 4th

Ask replaces its wallpaper on its home page to celebrate the Independence Day of America. Small logos about the 4th of July can be found on both Yahoo! and MSN. Google, however, has made no change to...

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Ask Specialises Blog Search

Ask has about 6% in US market share in terms of search volume and is currently the 4th largest search engine to serve its own search results, behind the 3 giants Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Ask, formerly...

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Searcher Behavior

Understanding Internet searcher behavior is an essential aspect of both effective SEO and PPC advertising, as Internet searchers interact with search engines in different ways. Interactive Local Media...

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Searchers Prefer Longer Keyword Phrases

More Internet searchers tend to prefer using longer keyword phrases when doing searches on search engines. Most people use 2 word keyword phrases in search engines. Searches on 3 word keyword phrases...

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Google Search vs Yahoo Content

Google focuses on search with Google’s search algorithm always getting continuous improvement. Google’s subdomains of products has been building up Google’s user database. Yahoo Search Algorithm vs...

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Prevents Search History Privacy Leak

Have you ever imagined your favorite search engine is collecting data about your search behavior? This is why you get free services from search engines. For instance with Google just to name a few, you...

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Ask Challenges Google Search Algorithm

Google has been dominating player in the search industry for years mainly due to its superiority on returning the most relevant search results. This leaves all other search engines mountains to climb....

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Ranking on Ask.com Organic Search Results

Several years ago I have had a client asking me to submit his website search engines. His website was not newly created at the time, though it wasn’t showed up on organic search results. The client...

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Ask.com Powers Lycos Search Algorithms

On 1 November, the 4th-ranked search engine Ask.com started to power the entire Lycos network including both Lycos organic and paid search, which were territories previously owned by MSN and Google,...

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2006 Search Industry Changes Recap

It has been a year of changes in the search industry in 2006, as many major updates were implemented by the search engines, either purely for keeping the competitiveness of their PPC programs or as...

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Travel Search Engines, Travel Websites

Travel websites are one type of B2C websites. Travelers can search for the availability and prices on hotel rooms, flight tickets, and hotel + flight + car package deals on online travel websites:...

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Clash of the Titans in 2006, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft

The tech war 2012 was about the competition among Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon. Early in 2006 Vinny Lingham (the former Clicks2Customers CSO and the current Yola CEO) wrote this article the Clash...

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