Google is one of the most popular web destination among internet users. The company continues to grow it’s online search market share and currently holds top spot. According to comScore’s August search engine rankings, Google increased it market share by 1.1% at the expense of Yahoo and Microsoft, which were down by 0.9 and 0.6 [...]
September 21st, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Search"
Yahoo search to webplay music
Yahoo has teamed up with RealNetworks to integrate music playback to it’s search results. Beginning today, users who search for an artist with available content on Yahoo! will be able to click & play music right in the Yahoo! shortcut at the top of the search results and instantly stream full-length songs by that artist [...]
September 18th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Search now an Internet Lifestyle, No. 2 after e-mail
According to a report released by the Pew Internet Project, search is now the 2nd top activity after e-mail for daily internet users. Also, the percentage of internet users who use search engines on a typical day has been steadily rising from about one-third of all users in 2002, to a new high of just [...]
August 7th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedLive search homepage revamped
Microsoft updated the homepage of its online search Live.com on Wednesday. The new design features background images that will change frequently and the image will have “hotspots” on it - an area on the image that is highlighted and boxed when the user hovers the mouse over it. The hotspot highlighted box has basic information [...]
July 30th, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedGoogle launches search engine in Polynesian language Maori
Maori is the indigenous language of New Zealand with just over 157,110 speakers. It is also one of the official languages of New Zealand along with English and New Zealand sign language. Every year since 1975, New Zealand has marked Maori language week to celebrate the language. This year, coinciding with Maori language week, Google [...]
July 27th, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedMicrosoft gains search market share in June, Google drops a little
comScore, Inc. has released monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In June 2008, Americans conducted 11.5 billion core searches, representing a 7-percent gain versus May. An interesting trend for June was a 0.7% gain in core search market share by Microsoft while Google lost 0.3%. Microsoft sites saw an increase in search [...]
July 20th, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedIt’s official: Microsoft acquires Powerset
Microsoft has made it official that it has acquired Powerset, as previously speculated by iMediaPress, for an undisclosed sum (rumored to be a $100 million deal).
Here is Microsoft’s official statement on the acquisition:
We’re excited to announce that we’ve reached an agreement to acquire Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company.
Powerset will join [...]
Microsoft might acquire Powerset
Rumor is that Microsoft has expressed interest in acquiring natural language based search engine Powerset. First reported by VentureBeat, and now confirmed by various news organization (although still with anonymous sources), that talks are in progress and Microsoft or some other search giant would acquire Powerset very soon. Microsoft is rumoured to be eying Powerset [...]
July 1st, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedWeb Search: Google, Yahoo up and Microsoft down
For the month of May, Google, Yahoo and Ask reported a green while Microsoft slipped further in red. Google search queries grew to 61.8 percent compared to 61.6 percentage for the month of May, according to search Internet monitoring research firm comScore.
Numbers for May:
Search Queries went up by 2 percent to 10.77 billion for the [...]
June 20th, 2008 | supa | Comments | ContinuedGoogle getting more out of the Web Search Pie
For the month of April, Google was the only major player whose market share of the web search queries grew. Eating more out of its competitors pie, Google search queries grew to 61.6 percent compared to 59.8 percentage for the month of April, according to search Internet monitoring research firm comScore.
Numbers for April:
Search Queries dropped [...]
May 22nd, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
