Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engine Market Share January 2010.

Google, Yahoo and Bing January 2010 market share was just announced by Comscore.com this week. According to them,”Americans conducted 15.2 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.4 percent search market share. Microsoft sites grabbed 11.3 percent market share, up 0.6 percentage points versus November.” Click here to read the rest of their data.
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Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engine Market Share December 2009.

Google, Yahoo and Bing December 2009 market share was just announced by ComScore.com this week. According to them,”Americans conducted 14.7 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.7 percent search market share, virtually unchanged from 65.6 percent in November. Microsoft Sites grabbed 10.7 percent market share, up 0.4 percentage points versus November.” Click here to read the rest of their data.
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Does fresh content increase Google rankings?

One of the comments most often bantered around by SEO novices and wanna be SEO experts is, “Google loves” fresh content so you have to add new content to your site all the time in order to increase or maintain your rankings. As an SEO with 10 plus years of experience I would like to categorically say, “this is not true.”  Changing content with the hopes that Google will see it as fresh is exactly that, “hope.” It is Voodoo SEO plain and simple. If you don’t believe me, go ahead and add some new content to your home page and come back in 10 days and let...
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Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engine Market Share October 2009.

Google, Yahoo and Bing October 2009 market share was just announced by Comscore.com. According to them, “Americans conducted more than 14.3 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.4 percent search market share. Microsoft sites are up a nominal .5% percent market share and Yahoo is down .8%.” Essentially Google continues to gain market share. Click here to read the rest of their data.
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Icann approves web addresses in different languages.

ICANN the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has approved the creation of URL addresses in multiple languages. These changes will have profound impact on Internet marketing and search engine optimization in countries that do not use roman language and characters. This will make necessary for companies desiring to do business internationally to design and launch websites with the corresponding language specific URLs and content in multiple countries. This will open opportunities for website design firms in those countries as well as SEO firms. To learn more about what is being called...
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Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engine Market Share September 2009.

Google, Yahoo and Bing Spetember 2009 market share was just announced by Comscore.com. According to them, “Americans conducted more than 13.8 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 64.9 percent search market share. Microsoft sites are up a nominal .1% percent market share and Yahoo is down .5%.” Essentially Google continues to gain market share. Click here to read the rest of their data.
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Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engine Market Share August 2009.

Google, Yahoo and Bing August 2009 market share was just announced by Comscore.com this week. According to them, “Americans conducted more than 13.9 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 64.6 percent search market share. Microsoft Sites grabbed 9.3 percent market share, a 0.4-percentage point gain versus July.” Click here to read the rest of their data. What I find interesting is people are claiming Bing is growing market share at the expense of Google but the data shows this is not true. Despite their multi-million dollar advertising campaign, Bing has only taken...
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Google Caffeine Beta Test of upcoming search changes at Google.

Google is working on delivering different results in a new update to their search engine called “Caffeine”. If you would like to try your own beta tests click here. The results many people are seeing include a lot of social media sites and Twitter in particular. I have found for transactional queries there are fewer social media results and the emphasis still appears be the relevance of the content. Please share you impressions.
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Yahoo search and Bing from Microsoft to merge.

Yahoo and Bing announced today they will be merging their search engines. According to the San Jose Mercury News, “The long-anticipated search and advertising partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft could be announced as early as today, according to reports in the trade and financial press — giving the companies a stronger presence in one of the Web’s most lucrative segments.” Click here to read the rest of this article. I also called a friend of mine at Yahoo and he confirmed a more detailed announcement is pending. He stated if approved by the Justice Department, Yahoo will...
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Which provides better search results - Google, Bing or Yahoo?

With Bing’s huge advertising campaign there has been a lot of buzz about their new search engine. Which of the three search engines truly delivers more relevant results? If you want to try an objective test vs. using your subject opinion then click here and conduct your own blind test. I recommend writing down a list of ten phrases you would search for but aren’t familar with the results. Track which search engine you liked best and come back here and share your results. In my case I picked Google 80% of the time and 20% of the time I picked Bing.com and not once did I pick Yahoo.
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