Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engine Market Share March 2012.

Comscore just released the Google, Yahoo and Bing search engine market share report for March 2012. According to them, “Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in March with 66.4 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 15.3 percent and Yahoo! Sites with 13.7 percent. Ask Network accounted for 3.0 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.6 percent.” Click here to read the rest of their data.
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Facebook Timeline for business pages.

We all know nothing is constant when dealing with companies like Google and Facebook except for “CHANGE!” It can be overwhelming to stay on top of these changes when they occur. Facebook announced they will be converting all business pages to the Timeline format this weekend. Here is a great article about how you can take advantage of this new format that the associated changes. Click here to read the article.
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Google Adwords offers “Do More With Less” mini site.

Google AdWords has launched a new mini-site, Google Do More With Less to help Google advertisers manage their advertising dollars better in this tough economy. On close inspection the site is a set of links to a variety of Google Tools advertisers might have bookmarked individually but it is nice to have all of these tools on one landing page. Also the AdWords blog has a new three part series that explains how some of these tools work.
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What is the Google Insight for search tool?

Google recently launched Google Insights for Search, a tool that helps businesses understand unique searcher behavior at a more detailed level than previously provided. The tool offers statistics based on search volume and search patterns. Researchers can compare seasonal trends, geographic distributions, and category-specific searches, and can group all these variables together to understand some very specific search patterns. This new tool also allows researchers to view “rising searches” overall or it allows monitoring of specific filters the researcher has set up.
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Back to school search trends by Google Adwords team.

I listened to a presentation by the Google Adwords team a week or two about about Back To School Trends. If you sell back to school products I think you will find this presentation very informative.
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Google Ad Planner is a new tool to place ads on targeted website.

This post comes from Information Week. Google has launched online tools to help advertisers choose the best Web sites for reaching a target audience, a move that apparently sent the stock of Web metrics firm ComScore plummeting more than 22%. The Google Ad Planner enables advertisers to enter the demographics and sites associated with their target audience to get back information about sites, on and off the Google network, that the audience is likely to visit. The tool also lets advertisers drill down further to get more details, such as demographics and related searches for a particular site,...
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May 15, 2008 – Google’s website passes Yahoo’s in popularity

This is from AP Wire Services. Google has surpassed Yahoo to become the most popular website in the U.S., according to Internet tracking firm ComScore Inc.’s rankings by the number of unique monthly visitors. Google Inc. has long been the Internet’s leader in search, but its audience has trailed Yahoo Inc.’s when counting other services such as e-mail and photo sharing. April’s numbers, which ComScore plans to formally release today, show Google on top for the first time. The lead is tiny — 466,000 visitors out of about 141 million apiece. And while such measures are...
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Yahoo Hit With $1 Million Click Fraud Lawsuit.

This post comes from Information Week. “An Internet retailer that used a pay-per-click advertising service operated by Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is suing the Internet giant for more than $1 million, claiming it was overcharged by thousands of dollars as a result of click fraud that Yahoo did little to prevent.Bigreds.com, which sells collectibles online, said it paid Yahoo’s Search Marketing unit, formerly known as Overture Services, more than $900,000 between 2002 and 2006. The fees were based on the number of clicks that Bigreds ads received on sites affiliated with Yahoo and Overture. Bigreds...
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Google increases search engine marketing share in March 2008.

It seems hard to believe but Google increased its share of the Internet search market by .6% at the expense of all competitors. According to Comscore. In March, Google Sites extended its share of core searches to 59.8 percent, up from 59.2 percent the previous month. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 21.3 percent, followed by Microsoft Sites (9.4 percent), AOL LLC (4.8 percent), and Ask Network (4.7 percent). Americans conducted 10.8 billion searches at the core search engines, representing a 9-percent gain versus February. Each of the five core search engines experienced search query gains during...
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Yahoo, Google Test Search Ad Partnership.

This is from AP Wire Services. Yahoo Inc. is surrendering some of its advertising space to Internet search leader Google Inc. in a test that appears designed to frustrate Yahoo’s unsolicited suitor, Microsoft Corp. The experiment announced Wednesday will allow Google to place ads tied to about 3 percent of the queries made in the United States through Yahoo’s search engine — the Internet’s second largest after Google’s. Without specifying a start date, Yahoo said the Google tests will last for up to two weeks. The Sunnyvale-based company said it hasn’t decided...
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