“Google’s share of US searches hits 70% “
July’s numbers for July 2008 are out, and Google has finally broken the magic number.
Google now reports 70.77 percent of all U.S. searches.
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“comScore Releases June 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings”
comScore is out for June 2008.
Google hovers at just above 60% of U.S. Search market, at 61.8%. AOL and Ask continue to drop off. Total searches continue to grow, up another 7% from May 2008.
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“Google Trends Comes To Web Sites: Trends For Web Sites”
Rustybrick woke me up out of my Friday Zone with some interesting breaking news today: Google Trends is now open out of the Labs for web sites.
This is very cool info for those of us looking for some numbers out of our markets.
Some features include:
- Geographics, visit trends, and search terms of searchers
- A “Search Volume Index” with line chart
- “Also Visited” sites, highlighting direct competition
- The ability to search more than one site at a time, in other words, comparing competitor data
The site is accessible without the personalization, but logging in with your Google Account also allows you to export the trend data as a .csv.
The data is culled from the pool of information Google has been collecting through an opt in in it’s Analytics program, consumer panel data, and market research, so it should more closely resemble true trends than similar online products like Alexa, which collect data from a limited pool of toolbar users.
For additional information, Read the Product Help Doc, , or check out the Webmaster Central Blog announcement.
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“Google Receives 68 Percent of U.S. Searches in May 2008″
Hitwise is out with the May ‘08 numbers.
Google is up and Yahoo! is down. Again.
“Report: Recession Fuels 50% Gain For Local Online Advertising”
Mark Walsh reports on the boost in Local Sales:
“Local Internet advertising is expected to increase 50% in 2008 to $13.1 billion as small and medium businesses facing a faltering economy turn to less expensive options for reaching consumers, according to a new study.”
Woot! for Local!
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“comScore: Google Gets High Again In US Search Share”
comScore is out with their April ‘08 numbers, which are admittedly more of the same that we’ve already seen.
One minor difference is that comScore has Yahoo!holding more of it’s own than the Hitwise numbers. Google’s growth seems to come from over all industry growth, and less than the cannibalism from an impending recession than other monthly interpretations.
Check out SearchEnginLand’s Coverage, including Pie Chart
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“Nielsen: Google Hits New Search Share High”
Searchengineland is out with the new Nielsen Rankings, pie chart included.
Google is up to 62% of searches.
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“Internet Advertising Revenues Top $21 Billion In ’07, Reaching Record High”
IAB and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) have release their 2007 Internet Advertising Report.
Major metrics include:
- “For the full year 2007, revenues totaled $21.2 billion, exceeding 2006 performance by 26 %, itself the former record year.
- Q4 2007 Internet advertising revenues hit $5.9 billion, representing historic revenues for a single quarter and a 24% increase over the same period in 2006.
- This is the fourth consecutive year and 13th consecutive quarter of record results.”
The data seems to follow wider technology trends, and slight steps away from old-form advertising tatctics, opting instead for Seach and Performance deals.
No huge surprise, Classifieds took another turn for the worse.
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“Girls Don’t Like My Search Videos”
Barry Schwartz has shared some YouTube demographic data today that, although not too surprising, is mind-boggling when you see it in colorful pie chart form.
View the Charts at Barry’s Blog
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April 2008 Hitwise Numbers, and Google’s Still Growing
Once again, Hitwise has released new numbers for this month, April 2008, and once again Google has posted growing numbers.
Up to 67.90%, most of their gains did not come from a strengthening market as hes been the case in the past. This time rather, it would appear that Google is in fact stealing shares straight out of the mouths of rivals Yahoo! and MSN.
Has anyone started the 70% countdown meter yet?
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