Oct 24, 2012 | Search engine marketing
This chart shows the local search breakdown for mobile and non-mobile users in North America. 16.37% of local search queries on Google were conducting using a mobile device. The fewest local searches on a mobile were conducted using Bing with only 5.21%. View larger...
Oct 24, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Following the expected unveiling of the iPad Mini this week, Experian Hitwise provides 9 key stats from the web showing demand and traffic sources for the much anticipated device. • 1 in every 6000 UK internet searches were for the iPad mini (week ending 20th October)...
Oct 18, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Search engine DuckDuckGo has released a video that aims to show that there’s no such thing as impersonal Google results. The video shows results from an experiment the team did in which more than 100 people searched the same topics while logged out of Google. Unlike...
Oct 15, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Getting to the top of Google is becoming increasingly important, with 53% of US searchers clicking on the top link of the natural search listings, according to new research. The study, from Kantar media’s Compete.com, also found that over 3 in 4 searchers (77%) click...
Oct 15, 2012 | Search engine marketing
TripAdvisor.co.uk and Superbreak.com have dropped off the rankings of the ten most visible sites for hotel-related searches, according to new research. The latest research, ‘Hotels Sector Report – Issue 13’, by digital marketing agency, Greenlight, indicates...
Oct 12, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Paid search budgets are on the rise globally, up 24% on last year on average, according to a new report. The Kenshoo Global Search Advertising Trends report examines the performance of paid search ads by analysing aggregate campaign data across search engines...
Oct 11, 2012 | Search engine marketing
The number of searches looking for local goods and services in the US has risen significantly in the past two years, with local searches making up 24% of Google queries, according to new research. The study, from ad network Chitika, indicates that Bing users are...
Oct 11, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Google is reportedly offering to brand its search results to avoid the European Commission taking formal action against the company’s alleged “abuse of dominance” in the search market. The Financial Times reports that Google is proposing to add its...
Oct 3, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Google has overtaken Microsoft in terms of share value, and leaving the internet giant trailing only Apple as the second wealthiest tech firm in the world. Google’s shares surged this week, increasing by nearly 1%, taking its market capitalisation to £154.1bn...
Oct 2, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Yandex has launched its own Internet browser, as the search giant looks to take on Google in the growing Russian market.The browser offers a relatively minimalist Russian-language interface based on the WebKit platform and Google’s Chromium code. “The...
Sep 19, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Visits to major search engines in the UK fell for the first time this year, with sports terms such as BBC Sport proving more popular than Olympic specific search keywords, according to new data. As shown in the table, visits to the major search engines have actually...
Sep 17, 2012 | Search engine marketing
As social media and search converge, Facebook is in a unique position to rival Google’s dominance in the coming years. A new survey reveals that Mark Zuckerberg’s plans to mix social with search could give Google a run for their (advertising) money....
Sep 17, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Google has shut off the auto-complete terms for The Pirate Bay on its search engine, as the firm steps up its copyright clampdown. From now, users typing in searches for the file sharing site on Google will now have to type out almost the entire name of the site...
Sep 14, 2012 | Search engine marketing
France’s leading online newspaper publishers have called for a new laws to Google and other search engines to pay them for using their published content. In an interview, Nathalie Collin publisher of Le Nouvel Observateur weekly, said a law should impose a...
Sep 13, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Two days since announcing its entry into the car insurance comparison arena in the UK, Google’s share of visibility for car insurance-related searches has soared overnight, from 0% to 75%, reveals research from digital marketing agency Greenlight. Following on...
Sep 11, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Microsoft is rebranding its search partnership with Yahoo as the Yahoo! Bing Network, following the tie up between the two firms set up in 2009. Microsoft’s partnership with Yahoo — in which Bing powers Yahoo searches — was formerly referred to as...
Sep 11, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Microsoft is inviting users to test its Bing search engine aginast Google in a side by side challenge, called ‘Bing it on’. Microsoft has long struggled to convince users that its Bing search engine delivers better, more focused results than Google’s market-leading...
Sep 3, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Bing has strengthened its partnership with Facebook, launching a new tool that lets users search and browse through their friends’ photos. The ‘Friends’ Photo’ feature isn’t available directly from the Bing homepage. Instead, users need to go to a...
Aug 17, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Google has rolled out its patent search across Europe, along with a number of new features to help budding inventors, entrepreneurs and brands check if their ideas have been copyrighted. The tool was initially launched in the US back in 2006, but the revamped service...
Aug 16, 2012 | Search engine marketing
Search engine optimisation remains a tricky balancing act, as the rules constantly change. In this official Google blog post, Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead from Google covers the five most common errors she finds in SEO, and then concludes with six quick...
