Editor's note: This column originally was published on April 13, 2012, and comes in at No.on our countdown of the 10 most popular Search Engine Watch columns of 2012. There's absolutely no doubt that social networks continue to play an increasingly...
After all, YouTube is the world’s second biggest search engine.also saw Bing begin to challenge Google more forcibly than before. Google changed the way that people find information in search. Google’s pursuit for relevancy really kick started the...
Search engine users overwhelmingly click on organic results on Google and Bing by a margin of 94 percent to 6 percent. But as age increases, so does the number of people clicking on those ads, as 65 percent of ad clicks come from searchers age 35...
Russian search engine leader Yandex will support IPv6 on Yandex.com, which is visited mostly by users outside of Russia and the rest of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), according to Vladimir Ivanov, Deputy Head of System...
The media started whispering about the first search engine that actually worked, and users began telling their friends to give Google a try. That’s the same time that Google decided to become the first search engine with an index of a billion URLs.
In other words, China's search engine market is virtually doubling year on year at the moment. Learn about PPC management, keyword research, search engine optimization (SEO), social media, local, mobile, link building, duplicate content, multiple...
China has the largest Internet population in the world at 420 million and 99 percent of them use Baidu, according to Robin Li, CEO of China's largest search engine. He hinted they would add different languages for the search engine in the future.
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But in the scheme of things, 32 searches is a tiny number for ultimate proof -- just as you can't prove a superior search engine based on 20 searches. Google is much more than just a search engine. Bing, the search engine saint, wastes none of that...
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Search engine algorithms do their best to deliver relevant results based on all of the people who searched on similar terms as you, but Facebook has the unique position with which to analyze your personal relationships and further differentiate...
More people are asking if Facebook is on its way to becoming a serious player in the search marketplace. Although search engines cropped up in the early days, the quality of results simply weren't good enough in the beginning to drive people to use...
Much has been written about Microsoft's launch of Bing, and the potential impact on search engine market share and user experience. These verticals provide some good insight beyond noting that Microsoft's search market share has increased.
Chinese search engine Baidu saw a whopping 91% increase in the third quarter of 2008. The search engine had been seeing explosive growth leading up to the Beijing Olympics, which occurred during the third quarter.
Why should search engine marketers pay attention to this trend? The number of visitors to the category age 50 and older grew 46 percent versus year ago, while visitors under 50 grew by 32 percent. Above average growth was also seen in the following...
Q: More than 80 people from the Yellow Pages Group attended Search Engine Strategies Toronto last week. Search engine marketers in the US tend to look West when trying to spot new SEM trends. But, if you stare into the sunset too long, you might...
Irrelevant file names -- 294883.jpg doesn't tell a user or a search engine what's in the photo; bluewidgetpic.jpg does. Who you are and who you tell people you are can be two different things. Good analytics, solid SEO, and effective paid...
Incisive Media regularly sends out direct (snail) mail campaigns to market its Search Engine Strategies events. While the data from coupon codes is useful, 10 percent is an amazingly low number. As the lines between types of media continue to blur...
According to Compete, 382,749 people visited Search Engine Watch in November 2007; 342,970 visited Search Engine Land; 278,014 visited WebProNews; 139,914 visited Marketing Pilgrim; 77,085 visited Search Engine Roundtable; and 32,398 visited...
Recently, I was able to catch up with several experts after their "Meet the Bloggers" session at Search Engine Strategies Chicago. Search Engine Watch does this well, through the ubiquitous orange RSS button, which links to a page with Google...
