Steve Balmer of Microsoft announced Thursday that they were opening 3 R&D centers in Europe as part of their ongoing efforts to catch up to Google in Search Engine market share. The search center locations would be in Munich, Paris and London. Microsoft also announced that it was going to be increasing its $600 million/yr […]
ReadMicrosoft started an initiative back in May called Live Search Cashback which provides rebates to users of its search engine who search for and purchase products through Microsoft Live. It was a novel approach to attempt to increase search engine market share. Currently, Google has a commanding lead at about 63%. Yahoo! is second with […]
ReadBy now, I would imagine that everyone in the SEO world has at least heard of the new startup search engine called Cuil (pronounced “cool”). It is run by some former Google employees, uses different algorithms and shows the results in a layout similar to a magazine or newspaper. As one might expect, an announcement […]
ReadIn an attempt to lure people to its Search Engine, Microsoft announced a plan that will give a rebate to searchers who search for products through Live Search and make their purchase at a qualifying vendor. When you search for a products, you will see links displayed that have the little graphic shown here. Make […]
ReadSince Microsoft’s attempt earlier this month to bully Yahoo into submission, Yahoo decided to publicly respond. In a letter sent over the weekend, Roy Bostock and Jerry Yang had a few barbs sent Microsoft’s way: As a follow up to a recent meeting among our respective legal advisors we had on this topic, and at […]
ReadWith all that shopping going on in December, it should come as no surprise that Search Engine traffic was down slightly (-3.9%) across the board during the month. After all, who can find time to goof around on the Internet when they are too busy doing last minute shopping? Despite that drop, Yahoo! search traffic […]
ReadThere were no significant changes in Search Engine market share from October to November ’07, according to Virginia based Internet information provider comScore. Google is still way out in front compared to the others and, although Yahoo! dropped and AOL/Time Warner grabbed a little more share, everyone basically kept their same positions in November. Of […]
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