The Google Omnibox is one of our favorite features of Chrome, and Google has just announced a whole slew of interesting extensions to its functionality. How will that affect Chrome users? Well, considering 54% of Chrome searches come from the Omnibox, the effects could be pretty impressive.
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The Google/Bing Search Bar Brouhaha
Google accuses Bing of using IE to steal their search results. Bing accuses Google of stealing their search innovations. Now, there’s some info as to whether Google is doing what they accused Microsoft of doing, but on a smaller scale. Confused?
SEOs: Think Bing, Not Google
In the race for search dominance, could Bing be the tortoise, slowly and steadily catching up to the hare, Google? SEOs should be paying more attention to the world of Bing, because the world of Bing is starting to pay attention to them.
Chrome OS: A Viable Desktop Operating System?
Today at the Mobile World Conference, covered by Matt Rosoff at Business Insider, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed details of the future of Android, and also about the Operating System fragmentation strategy employed by Google. Also briefly mentioned within Rosoff’s article, as well as Rob Jackson’s at phandroid.com, is Schmidt’s plan to push Chrome OS… Continue reading Chrome OS: A Viable Desktop Operating System?
Yandex: The Ivan Drago of Search?
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.
61% of iPads Already Running iOS 4 – January iOS and Android OS Breakdown
Ringing in the new year, we look at Android and iOS to see what OS versions people are running. Fragmentation is about even, and the iPad has picked up iOS 4 quickly.
Android to Pass iPhone’s Market Share in 2012
Android has been narrowing the gap between its family of phones and the iPhone’s market share all year. Based on our network’s data, Google’s OS will finally pass Apple’s landmark device on February 16, 2012, a little past noon Eastern.
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.
Top Two iPhone Search Engines: Both Google
After our panel at SMX East revealed Google’s dominance in the mobile search market, we decided to look into the sources of their traffic. The Google App by itself can stand as the 2nd biggest iPhone search engine. As seen in Search Engine Land and ReadWriteWeb. Good information for all those using the new Chitika Mobile Ads.
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.