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Google continues its dominance of the US search market, a new study has revealed. Research conducted by market monitoring firm Hitwise revealed that Google possessed more than 65 percent of all American searches during December. This compares to almost 21 percent for Yahoo!, seven percent for MSN Search and just over four percent for Ask.com…. Read more »
The presidential election is to be dominated by social networking, it has been claimed. Debra Aho Williamson, senior analyst at internet commentator eMarketer, notes that each candidate has a social networking profile. She adds that the potential of social media sites for allowing voters to discuss their opinions could also have some bearing on the… Read more »
Websites considering revamping their email marketing strategy for 2008 should ensure their communications contain interesting and engaging content, an expert has commented.
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While it probably won’t have the impact of a new Super Mario title, Nintendo’s new collaboration with Google has produced a game that’s getting attention: Ando-Kensaku, a Wii game, will center on search engine optimization (SEO). Describing the game, PC World’s Matt Peckham writes that “players compete by attempting to guess the popular web search… Read more »
Financial search engine BigSuperSearch.com went public earlier today, with the company announcing that it would be looking into expanding the search engine’s worldwide reach.
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As the controversy over Yelp’s user reviews and business sponsorship continues to mount, the crowd-sourced business review website has pledged to keep user-generated content separated from the advertisements. The company wrote in an official blog post that “despite our best efforts to educate consumers and the small business community, myths about Yelp have persisted. We’ve… Read more »
An analyst with investment firm Piper Jaffray says that there is a 70 percent chance that Apple will release its own search engine to compete with Google and Bing within the next five years, making for further complications in the future search engine optimization (SEO) market. According to eWeek’s Clint Boulton, “as the search provider… Read more »
Online video startup Episodic announced in a blog post on Friday that it had finalized a deal to be acquired by search giant Google, solidifying the latter company’s commitment to playing a part in the future of online video. Search Engine Watch describes Episodic as an "online video platform [which] lets publishers and marketers host,… Read more »
Users of Apple’s iPhone who are somehow bored and out of ideas for things to do could turn to Goby’s new app for suggestions: The program collects location-relevant activities and displays them to the user. Mobility news blog Into Mobile writes that “the service has over four million unique things to do across 350 categories,… Read more »
The continuing disagreements between Google and the Chinese government – which last month caused the search giant to move its Chinese operations to Hong Kong in protest of government censorship – have resulted in ongoing problems for Chinese searchers, as well as search engine optimization (SEO) in the country. Duncan Clark, chairman of tech consultancy… Read more »