Search engine news and articles of the week
Google passes 74% market share
“Google accounted for 74.04 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending June 27, 2009. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 16.19 percent, 5.25 percent and 3.15 percent, respectively. The remaining 48 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.36 percent of U.S. searches.”
Introducing the Google Chrome OS
“Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.”
“This is the point when the difference between their internal conception of the company starts to diverge just a bit too far from the public perception of the company, and even starts to diverge from reality. […]
There are some notable trends going on across Google today that could cause the company to compromise its stated values and that will certainly cause people to think Google is being evil, if not corrected.”
June search market share: Bing shines in a rough June for search
“Bing has raised Microsoft?s search market share by 0.3pts to 6.5%. Bing yielded 80% more ‘paid clicks’ last month than MSN/Live did in May. Given this fact, it?s highly likely that Bing will raise Microsoft?s overall search revenue, even though revenue per paid click may go down. […] The overall search market fell by 1.7% and Google lost 0.9% query volume.”
Bing leapfrogs Yahoo Search? again
“According to the new data, Bing took 12.9% of the US market like comScore had earlier measured. With the strong jump, Bing comes out ahead of Yahoo Search (10.15%), while Mountain View remains the undisputed king of the mountain with a US market share of 75%.”
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