Online competitive intelligence service Experian Hitwise released its US search market share results for the month of February 2010. Google continues to be the runaway leader in search market share with 70.95 percent of total US search volume share for the four weeks ending February 27, 2010. Yahoo!, Bing, and Ask.com received 14.57 percent, 9.70 percent, [...] Read more »
Bing Makes Significant Gains in Search Market Share–But Google Still the Top Dog
Online competitive intelligence service Experian Hitwise released its US search market share results for the month of January 2010. Google continues to be the runaway leader in search market share with 71.49% of total US search volume share for the four weeks ending January 31, 2010. Yahoo!, Bing, and Ask.com received 14.57, 9.37, and 2.64, [...] Read more »
High-Tech Paid-Search Spend Up 17% in 4Q09
Published on January 14, 2010 Paid-search spending worldwide by US-based high-tech and consumer-electronics advertisers grew 16.6% in the fourth quarter of 2009 over third-quarter levels, after having grown 7.7% in the third quarter, according to a study from Covario. Due in large part to a growing demand for ad space by consumer electronics companies during the [...] Read more »
Bing’s Dip Could Be a Blip or Oncoming Trouble
On Jan. 13, Nielsen offered up its December 2009 data for the U.S. search market, finding that Google held 67.3 percent of that market, with Yahoo following at 14.4 percent and Bing in third with 9.9 percent. Granted, this is just one research firm’s report, which will most likely vary from reports by other firms, [...] Read more »
Google and Bing Growing – at Yahoo’s Expense
Even with the threat of Microsoft’s Bing, Google continues to take a greater share of the search engine market. But Bing is growing, too; it’s Yahoo that is losing ground. According to comScore’s November statistics (via eWeek), Google and Bing are essentially having a feeding frenzy on Yahoo’s lost market share. Yahoo’s share fell by [...] Read more »
