I found this really interesting article by Greg Jarboe at Search Engine Watch. “The old neighborhood is changing. Gentrification has hit the search engine industry, where the old neighborhoods populated by working-class search marketers are now being populated by new groups from other areas, and many of the things common in the daily life of a search marketer three years ago are no longer relevant to industry newcomers.
A look at the conference handbooks for the Search Engine Strategies events in New York from 2004 and 2007 shows that this is taking place in at least four different ways. And by attending the show earlier this month, I experienced a fifth example that illustrates this change.” Click here to read the rest of this article.
Google, Yahoo and Bing June 2010 market share was just announced by Comscore.com this week. According to them, “Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in June with 62.6 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (up 0.6 percentage points to 18.9 percent), and Microsoft Sites (up 0.6 percentage points to 12.7 [...]
According to the LA Times, “Irvine-based Internet search engine Local.com Corp. said Thursday that it had acquired Octane360, a Los Angeles technology start-up that specializes in online marketing for small businesses and Web domain owners. Local.com said it paid $5 million in cash and stock for Octane360, with up to $5.9 million in additional cash [...]