Analytics.
Survey: Google Still Leads, But Competitors Closing Gap
In today’s SearchDay, Yahoo & MSN Closing the Google Gap, Chris Sherman looks at a new study that finds while Google is maintaining its leadership position with searchers,…
Traffic to Charity Sites Jumps
Hitwise reports that traffic to humanitarian websites has grown over five-fold since the tsunami disaster December 26, with the sector now representing…
Search Year In Review, With A Laugh
Peter Da Vanzo’s 2004: The Search Engine Year in Review article over at SearchEngineBlog.com (soon to gain the rightful tag, The Original…
Most Cited Blogs and News Items of 2004
Intelliseek’s weblog intelligence and search service, BlogPulse, has just published their list of the most cited items, weblogs, news sources, and personalities…
Referrals to Shopping Sites and Popular Search Terms
Two articles out today highlighting new numbers from Hitwise First, AuctionBytes reports about new Hitwise stats about search engine referrals to shopping…
Searching with Your Social Network
In our day to day lives, we all rely on word-of-mouth recommendations from friends and associates. Tapping into knowledge and experience from…
Forrester Stats, Search Defection & Vertical Search
Charlene Li shares some stats from internal Forrester research about search loyalty in The battle for search loyalty drives innovation. Is Google…
Eurekster Search Coming to Friendster
Eurekster’s personalized search will soon be available on social networking service Friendster, according to this Reuters article. The new search tool, due…
Internet Publishing in the U.S.
Although not directly search-related, the U.S. Census has just released a portion of the 2002 Economic Census focusing on Internet publishing and…
The Once and Future Internet
What did the future look like to the cognoscenti of the information industry in 1993? Mining Google Groups’ vast Usenet archive is…
Fathom KPI Finds Prices For Consumer-Targeted Keywords Rise Again
Fathom Online’s Keyword Price Index for November showed a 7 percent rise from last month, with the average price per keyword jumping…
DoubleClick Says Black Friday Was Good For Search Marketing
DoubleClick has released figures relating to search marketing over the "Black Friday" post-Thanksgiving heavy shopping weekend that found traffic, conversions and spending…
Vivisimo On Personalization
Raul Valdes-Perez, the CEO of Vivisimo (the company that brings us Clusty) has written a column for News.com about how the “best”…
MSN Search Insider Offers Look At MSN Searches
Ian over in our forums gives a heads-up of a new MSN Search Insider feature that has sprung up. It shows the…
Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts
As Chris blogged, Google has raised the stakes in the search engine size wars by claiming an index of 8 billion pages.…
Coincidentally, Google’s Index Size Jumps
On the eve of Microsoft’s long anticipated launch of MSN Search, Google is reporting on its home page that its index size…
Keyword Prices Rise, But Only In Some Categories
Fathom Online’s Keyword Price Index showed a 14 percent rise from September, with the average price per keyword jumping from $1.37 to…
AOL: Personal Search Will Come
AOL has said before it plans to do things in terms of personalizing the search experience. This article from IDG has them…
Early Web Search Announcements
On the heels of today’s SearchDay article: Search Memories, some of you might enjoy reminsicing about the “early days” by taking a…
FeedForAll For Feed Creation
When I wrote my Making An RSS Feed article last year, I had a few people puzzled about why it was even…
Top Coders Say Google Is Tops
TopCoder.com polled its 44,000 members worldwide about their favorite search engine. A much smaller number actually voted, 450, and they really like…
Most Searched For Shopping Brand?
What’s the most popular search for brand in the shopping category? Amazon? Walmart? Nope, according to some just released stats from Hitwise,…
SEMPO Search Marketing Survey Opened
Last week, I complained that little is known about the size of the search marketing industry. Paid search spending, sure — we’ve…
A Chat With Findory’s Greg Linden
Searcher magazine (a popular publication in the library and info industry) has just published an interview I did with Findory Chief Executive,…
Microsoft 1995: Search Isn’t A Business!
Another early search history lesson from one of Excite’s founders, Joe Kraus, about when Microsoft considered buying his company. "I remember Nathan…
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