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
Tag: Google
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
Search Market Share – Microhoo Making Headway
Microsoft and Yahoo! are both seeing growth in their share of search traffic sent into the Chitika advertising network. April and May has seen an increase in both search engines’ shares, along with a corresponding decline in Google’s traffic share.
More Android than iPhone? Not So Fast
Despite reports of Android passing the iPhone in North American market share, Apple’s smartphone still has three times the traffic of Google’s collection. As seen in Business Insider
Update: Months Later, Bing Users Still Ad-Crazy
What is the value to a website that runs ads of a single Bing user versus a Google or Yahoo! user? Looking at the ad clickthrough rates of traffic sent by the big 3 search providers, it appears that one Bing user is worth more to a website than one Google user. As seen in TechCrunch, Ars Technica, iMedia Connection, and more.
You Voted: Winners of PS3, $400 in placement contest
This year we decided to have YOU, our readers vote for which AdSense + Chitika ad placement was best integrated together in our annual AdSense + Chitika placement contest. After hundreds of submissions, Chitika’s Special Projects Team narrowed it down to 8 finalists – you can see them here. Our Grand Prize Winner of a… Continue reading You Voted: Winners of PS3, $400 in placement contest
Finalists chosen for Chitika + Adsense Contest
We received hundreds of submissions for our AdSense + Chitika Ad Placement Contest this year, thank you to all who entered! This year we have decided to narrow it down to 8 finalists and have you vote for our grand prize winner who will receive a Playstation 3 Slim + NFL Madden 10, and 2… Continue reading Finalists chosen for Chitika + Adsense Contest
Adsense + Chitika Placement Contest 2: Win Playstation 3 Slim & NFL Madden 10
*UPDATE: This Contest Is Now Closed* Finalists announced here Our AdSense + Chitika Ad Placement contest is back again by very popular demand. Last year we had over 300 submissions to this contest with some really great ad integrations of Chitika Premium and Google AdSense on your websites. This years’ grand prize winner will receive:… Continue reading Adsense + Chitika Placement Contest 2: Win Playstation 3 Slim & NFL Madden 10
Chitika Study: Open Source Users Love Google, Hate Microsoft
With the upswing in the number of Linux boxes (thank you netbooks and Dell) and as much interest we have in the search engine market, we at Chitika thought we’d take a look at the search habits of our open-source friends. We compared the OS and search engine data for 163,211,927 searches – a sample… Continue reading Chitika Study: Open Source Users Love Google, Hate Microsoft