Hot on the heels of the announcement that Microsoft’s Bing & Yahoo will be teaming up to take on Google, StatCounter reports that Bing gained another 1% of the search market last month and is slowly but surely growing their share. In a preview of what’s to come with a joint Bing/Yahoo effort, their combined …
Read MoreYahoo! and Microsoft’s Bing Team Up to Take On Google 4
Finally – maybe Google will get a run for it’s money. I love Google as much as the next guy, but it’s been tough to watch the rest of the “competition” get left so far behind in the dust. As you can read in this article on Search Engine Watch “It’s Official: Microsoft and Yahoo! …
Read MoreHello My Name is Robots Dot Text (Robots.txt) 3
Greetings humans! My name is Robots Dot Text. You can call me robots.txt (ah hah! Clever, eh?). As you can see, I am mainly part text document (hence my bland-looking figure; apologies for not being part Word document or Photoshop image), part “dot” (it is hard finding suits that fit a dot-like figure) and part …
Read MoreAre Search Engine Users Getting Smarter? 9
Hitwise recently published a study on search query length that showed that longer search queries are getting more & more popular. In layman’s terms – search engine users are typing more words into the search box than they used to. The major takeaway from the study is that people still primarily use two-word queries in …
Read MoreGoogle Suggest: Reading Minds Since August 25 6
As you may or may not have experienced, performing a search on Google.com is a little different nowadays. You can thank Google Suggest for this, a new feature announced this week. Is Google Suggest something we, as search marketers, can use to the benefit of our clients? Or is it a gimmick, purely for …
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