A story in SearchEngineLand by Andy Atkins-Kruger this morning profiled the “Comeback Kid” of Russian search, Yandex. Apparently, the search engine spent 2010 taking the Russian search market away from Google, while racking up a tidy sum of revenue.
Category: Search Engines
Ignoring Bing and Yahoo Costing Publishers Big Bucks
Now that Bing is powering Yahoo! search results, Microsoft’s search engine controls nearly one-fourth of all search traffic. The time has come for publishers to concentrate on a powerful #2 search engine, with up to a 23% boost in search traffic waiting to be claimed.
Android Devices: Evo and Droid Rule, 4G Coming Strong
Android is coming on strong, and the mobile OS by Google appears to be dragging mobile Internet usage into the 4G world. We break down the top Android handsets by traffic share across the Chitika network in early November, 2010.
Search Engine Market Share and the Portal Effect
The difference between our search engine market share numbers and comScore’s underscore a fundamental difference in search engine business models. On the one hand is Google’s model: search-and-go, get people out into the third party web. On the other hand is Yahoo!’s web portal model: provide a singular experience, give searchers what they’re looking for without having to leave the network of Yahoo! properties.
July Search Stats – Yahoo! Up, Bing and Google Down
Chitika Research’s July 2010 search engine market share report, including data spanning all of 2010. Of the big three search engines, only Yahoo! saw an increase in their market share, while both Bing and Google saw minor losses. As cited in Business Insider, Search Engine Land, and WebProNews
Firefox 2nd Most Influential Player in Search
Firefox appears to hold a lot of the cards in the search engine market share game. We looked at what percentage of search traffic coming into our network came from Firefox’s deal with Google – specifically, the Firefox start page and little embedded Google bar – and found that Firefox’s default search engine controls more of the search market than anyone besides Google themselves. Bidding war, begin! As seen in ReadWriteWeb
Search Market Share – Yahoo and Bing Legitimately Up Big
Despite some controversy over Yahoo!’s “gaming” the search market share numbers, according to our traffic data, both Yahoo! and Bing are legitimately growing – and fast – in 2010. As seen in Search Engine Land
SEO Sweet Spot – Three-Word Searches
How many words does it take to get to the center of good search traffic? According to a new study by online ad network Chitika, three – as in, three-word search queries drive the most traffic from search engines. To determine the optimal word count, Chitika looked at a sample of 41,103,403 impressions of search… Continue reading SEO Sweet Spot – Three-Word Searches
Googlers’ Backup Plan – Ask.com?
When Google users are unhappy with the results of their search, where do they go next? According to data pulled from the Chitika ad network, they overwhelmingly go to Yahoo! and to perennial search underdog Ask. As seen at Search Engline Land
Google Dominant in Competitors’ Back Yards
Google, the most popular search engine, has plenty of enemies (competitors?). We look into the hometowns of some of Google’s top rivals – Apple, Yahoo!, and Microsoft – to see how much of a foothold Mountain View’s finest has. Featured in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer