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Search Month: October 2008 Search News, In Review
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Yahoo Gains Search Share; Google & Microsoft Suck
Some good news for Yahoo! It’s share of US searches in September reached 20.2%–up from 19.6% in August.
Bad news for Google. It’s share dropped a massive 0.1% from 63% to just 62.9%–that should freak out the Wall Street boys.
The good news for everyone? The data comes from comScore, which means that it probably has a [...]
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Advertising Experiments Take a Backseat for Now
As the news continues to pour in and the news media works hard to sell their wares (meaning the more terrible the news the more people pay attention) there are more victims to be counted in the carnage. This time the targets are the ‘darlings’ of the new world advertising and marketing including web video, [...]
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Google News Testing New Vertical Format
Google News is testing a new vertical format which seems to be reminiscent of Yahoo One Search and more of a mobile device driven format than the usual Newspaper style spread Google News usually delivers on the PC. Ugly as sin as this Google News layout is, there may be some reasons behind it.
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Yahoo News Tests New Look, Targets Social Media Users
Yahoo News is inviting its throngs of readers to try its next version, which has new design and content features. Readers will immediately notice a wider footprint on the new Yahoo News, as well as larger text and other new design elements. Content has also been rearranged, with easier access to the most popular stories [...]
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Have ADD? New Yahoo News Might Have the Solution for…Oh Look, a Butterfly!
A man walks down the streetHe says why am I short of attentionGot a short little span of attention
Well, Betty, if you’re short on attention, you might just want to head over and check out the newly designed Yahoo News. In addition to some cosmetic changes, the new Yahoo News will attempt to customize your [...]
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Google News Glitch: SpaceX Private Space Flight is “Delicious”
A Search Engine Land reader points us toward the Science/Tech category of Google News, where, for the better part of the morning, a CNET news article about private rocketry was displaying with the headline, “Delicious.” Here’s a screenshot: Ironically, the story — about the first time a privately-financed rocket has reached
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Facebook Grows 50%; MySpace Still #1; Social Networking Traffic Declines 17% Overall
OK, Facebook, what do you want first? The good news, or the bad news?
The good news? Well, the good news is that, according to Hitwise, you’ve grown your US share of social networking sites by a massive 50%, in the past year. w00t!
Now for the bad news. MySpace still has a 67.54% market share, compared [...]
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Weekly Search Buzz RoundUp - 09/26/08: Google Causes Scramble over Dynamic URLs, Google Street View
Happy Friday! Are you ready for the weekend? After this week's big news, I know I am! Google Doesn't Want You to Rewrite Dynamic URLs What big news am I talking about? Earlier this week, we found that Google would...
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Google News is Getting the Date Wrong on Old News Stories
Last week there was a bit of a brouhaha over Google news incorrectly giving the wrong date for a news story. In that particular incident Google news picked up a 6 year old story about United Airlines filing bankruptcy which upset the stock market for that particular stock. I’ve seen things like that happen before [...]
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