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Bing's Search Share is Movin' on Up

Yahoo's search influence may be waning, but it seems to be all good news for Bing. In under three years, the Microsoft-owned Bing, which actually powers Yahoo Search, crept up to almost tie Yahoo's share of the search engine...

Facebook's Latest Conquest is Quite a Display

Yahoo, of course, is used to this kind of thing by now. For Google, it’s simply time to reload and fight harder. Facebook is now projected to pass both companies in 2011 U.S. online display advertising revenues with an estimated...

Search Rankings Remain Steady – Explicit and Core

comScore released its monthly analysis of the U.S. search marketplace last week. Google Sites led the “explicit core search" market (searches occuring directly/explicitly at those destinations) in May with a 65.9 percent...

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Microdata Wins - Schema.org Brings Richer Web

Google, Bing and Yahoo jointly announced a new initiative today at Schema.org to create and support a common vocabulary for structured data markup on web pages in Microdata. For many years search engines have worked independently of...

Facebook is Dominating Display Advertising

Analysts from eMarketer are forecasting that Facebook’s display advertising revenues will jump nearly 81 percent this year, easily overtaking Yahoo for command of the online ad universe. That’s not to say that Yahoo’s...

20 User Review Websites Critical to Small Business

According to an internal analysis of small business search results, Marchex – a provider of small business marketing products – found that more than 80 percent of results did not point to the websites of those businesses...

Google, Yahoo Jump on the Do-Not-Track Bandwagon

As the debate over do-not-track legislation rages on, Google and Yahoo continue to take steps hoping to appease those in favor of blocking all trackable user data. Google announced on their AdWords blog that they will adopt the familiar...

How Will You Monetize the Visual Web?

Google recently predicted that display advertising will be a $5 billion industry by 2015. Yahoo! keeps pushing display advertising (reporting a 17% increase in Q3) and claims to be as dedicated as ever to the medium. Jumping on board...

Is Google Losing Its Grip on Search?

When Google Instant launched earlier this month, the relatively indifferent reactions from the Yahoo and Microsoft camps came as no surprise. No one expected Google’s competitors to come out and say that the world’s dominant...

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Website Magazine Radio: Google and Yahoo Battle, The Mobile Web

It's time for another edition of Website Magazine Radio. This week we discuss new battle lines being drawn between Google and Yahoo! Also, we look at new data about smartphone usage and the mobile Web - and what it means for your...

Bing Set to Pass Yahoo! in Natural Search Share

According to iCrossing’s Enterprise Natural Search Share Index for December 2009, Google is rolling along nicely but Yahoo! continues its downward spiral. iCrossing reported that Google’s natural click share rose 0.78%...

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Cross-Engine Keyword Richness Inquiry

The importance of keywords and phrases in domains, subdomain, folders, & page names What impact do keywords in the domain have on placement in search engines? How about if they are in the subdomain or only in the page name? What...

Video Optimziation: Google Supports FB Share and RDFa

If you're creating videos, hosting them on your website, and aim to optimize those videos for competitive search engine placement you'll want to pay attention to this one. Google today announced support for Facebook Share and...

Bing The Fastest Growing Search Engine, Yahoo Stumbling, Google Steady

While Google remains far and away the leading search engine (with a 65% share of searches), Bing, at least according to Nielsen, is the fastest growing search engine. Bing's search market share in August rose 22.1% to 10.7% of...

Everybody Panic! Google and Yahoo Update Indices

The forums are flush this morning with news that both Yahoo! and Google are updating their indices. While few details are available there’s no real reason to panic as, at least on Google, it looks like a return to pre-summer...

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