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Search Trends: Royal Wedding More Interesting than bin Laden?
Royal wedding demolishes bin Laden’s death in search traffic, points to differences in the strengths of search versus social.
Top Concern for iPad Users: Jailbreaking
The #1 and #5 most-searched terms on iPads is how to jailbreak them. #2 and #3 are about the royal wedding, but isn’t everything these days?
Google Search +1 = Social
Search and social should be like peanut butter and chocolate, but search giant Google has so far been unable to crack the social scene. With their new “+1” feature, have they pulled it off? Will you use +1, and did you use Buzz, Wave, or Orkut?
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?
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.
Bing Losing Users Faster than Impressions
Microsoft’s decision engine, Bing, saw a large number of individuals trying out the service in August. Since then, the user base has declined more rapidly than the impressions, indicating that many tried out Bing during the summer months and moved back to Google for their full-time searches.
Top Referring Sites: Social Media No Threat To Search
Breakdown of referrals to the Chitika network comparing 7 days in July with 7 days in September, 2009. Some key insights: Twitter users becoming link-blind; Bing losing referral market share; search continues to dominate, with no obvious threat from social media.
Chitika Study: Bing Struggling To Win Even IE Users
The power of bundled software can be an amazing thing – all three major operating systems have a bundled Internet browser, each of which has 73% of their OS’s Internet usage (based on a sample of 163 million US/Canada impressions across the Chitika network in early August). But Bing, the decision engine Microsoft bundles with… Continue reading Chitika Study: Bing Struggling To Win Even IE Users
Bing Struggling to Win Even IE Users
Compared with other browser/search engine bundled combos (Firefox/Google, Safari/Google, etc.), the Internet Explorer/Bing combo garners very little loyalty for Microsoft’s decision engine. Covered by eWeek, TechCrunch, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and more.