Website: Search Engine Strategies
Overview: The definitive event for UK and European marketers, corporate decision makers, webmasters and search engine marketing (SEM) specialists, including pay per click (PPC) advertisers and search engine optimization (SEO) consultants. Attend SES London, network with your peers a...
For the first time since its release, Bing did not gain market share, and in fact, has lost a chunk of it in the US throughout the month of September. Bing remained stable in Europe, but according to StatCounter lost over 1% in the US and fell to 8.51% from 9.64% in August. StatCounter also revealed that Microsoft’s...
Throughout the month of August, Bing managed to do something no other search engine could: gain market share. Bing gained 0.4% market share month on month in August while Google lost 0.1% and Yahoo remained level. That leaves Bing with 9.3, Google with 64.6%, and Yahoo with 19.3% of the US search market. But the big...
Today Yahoo launched its massive global ad campaign in order to re-establish itself as, according to CEO Carol Bartz, “the centre of people’s lives”. Not much is known about the campaign yet other than that it will be done by Ogilvy & Mather. Also, the Wall Street journal reported that according to people fami...
We have seen numerous new search engines arise in recent years, some of which attract massive media attention, take Wolfram Alpha for example. This “Answer Engine” promised to be the next big thing, the David that would topple the mighty Google Goliath. What happened was rather different though, yes it was excit...
Recent studies by Hitwise reveal that Bing produces the highest percentage of successful searches in Canada, with a success rate over 10% higher than Google (Bing=78.7%, Google=67.6%). It has been speculated that this is because Microsoft took the time to thoroughly crawl Canadian sites, paid attention to the French...
The Search Cowboys, Bas Van Den Beld and Roy Huiskes, recently did their first radio show on webmasterradio.fm. They touched on many hot topics throughout the search industry, from the European Commission’s passing of the Microsoft Yahoo search deal to the drastic transfer of traffic from transaction sites to cont...
