Analytics.
AOL & Ask Show Growth In Searches But Big Players Still Big
New quarterly statistics out from Nielsen//NetRatings show that AOL and Ask Jeeves had double-digit growth in the number of searches they handled, though the total number of searches…
What Americans are Searching For
A new study reveals some interesting patterns in the behavior of searchers, affirming the importance of search to internet users. Among the…
Findory and Filangy Also Offer Personalized Web Results
Since it seems to be all about personalized search today, I think it’s worth mentioning that Findory has been offering personalized web…
NetRatings: Google Most Popular In May, But Trend Is No Real Trends So Far
Concluding what’s turned into a series of the latest search popularity ratings today (see also WebSideStory, Hitwise), new stats now posted from…
Hitwise: Google Tops In May
New stats now posted from Hitwise show Google has the highest share of visits by US web surfers of all search and…
WebSideStory: Google Continues Its Popularity Rise
New stats released today from WebSideStory show Google has continued to gain in popularity every year since 2001, while Yahoo is shown…
Ballmer: We’ll Catch Google In Relevancy In 6 Months
We’ve had Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer make jabs at Google before. However, ZDNet Australia article Google in sight as Ballmer vows .NET…
Rating Search Engines By Playing Trivial Pursuit
We’ve written many times about how search engines are moving to presenting direct answers in response to some questions. Trivia Stump Smart…
Time’s Top 50 Sites & Search In Class Of Its Own
Time magazine is out with their annual list of the 50 “Coolest” web sites. Instead of including resources and tools from the…
More on Grokker’s Visual Search Results
When Grokker released its free online I Grok search tool last month, Gary blogged a brief post about it. Essentially, I Grok…
Danny & Tristan Talk About Link Counts, Site Counts & Index Auditing
I’ve been having a series of email conversations with Tristan Louis, who has been trying to understand how well “A-List Bloggers” do…
PageRank Decoder Offers Flash-Based Guestimates On Linking Impact
Want to understand how PageRank will build between pages you link? Only Google actually knows how that works. There’s been so much…
Should You Trust Those Alexa Stats?
Everyone loves stats, and Alexa is a great place to get popularity data about your site for free. But is it accurate?…
Real Estate Site Traffic & Housing Bubble Terms Spike
Remember the report last week that keyword prices relating to mortgages had dropped? Well, real estate sites themselves didn’t see a drop…
Survey Looks At Spend On Clothing, Personal Care Products & Electronics
Shopping.com has released a new Smart Shopping Index, a quarterly survey of online shopping behavior based on a sample of 1,000 adults…
CNET Compares Nine Web Engines
Ben Patterson from CNET has written reviews of nine web search engines along with putting together a chart that lists various features.…
Make Your Own Tag Clouds With TagCloud.com
I wrote earlier of Yahoo News Tag Soup, which automatically groups Yahoo News stories into tag categories in a "cloud" format. Want…
A New Compilation Free “Cool Tools”
Over at Search Engine Guide, you’ll find a new compilation from Robin Nobles that lists a number of cool tools that just…
New Study Looks at What Drives Online Usage?
This isn’t a search item but I think it might be of interest to some of you. The Online Publishers Association and…
GoLexa, Link Harvester & Recap Of Other New SEM Tools
The past few weeks have been pretty busy in terms of new search marketing tools appearing. I’ve now posted a recap of…
StatCounter & Alt Text For SEO
ClickTracks said it wasn’t the only tracking service to make use of tracking codes for SEO purposes. Frank Watson’s Some Tracking Companies…
ClickTracks Launches Discounted Agency Plan
The ClickTracks web analytics service has opened a new ClickTracks Agency Program, providing a discount for agencies seeking to do web analytics…
Discussions On Travel Search
Have Search, Will Travel from MediaPost has David Berkowitz looking at travel search, the topic of three separate panels at the recent…
RustySearch Search Relevancy Challenge: Everyone’s Pretty Average, So Far
Barry Schwartz’s Search Engine Relevancy Challenge is still going strong at RustySearch. How’s it going so far? He’s had 5,000 rated search…
New Estimate Puts Web Size At 11.5 Billion Pages & Compares Search Engine Coverage
It has been ages since I’ve seen anyone try to estimate the size of the web. Now a new paper puts it…
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