Search engine news of the week

Hitwise: Google receives 64 percent of all U.S. searches in Aug. 2007

"Google accounted for 63.98 percent of all US searches in the four weeks ending September 1, 2007. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 22.87, 7.98 and 3.41 percent respectively. [...]

Search engines continue to be the primary way Internet users navigate to key industry categories. Comparing August 2007 to August 2006, the Travel, Entertainment and Business and Finance categories received double digit increases in their share of traffic coming directly from search engines."



Nielsen/Netrankings August U.S. search share rankings
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"Google handles 53.6% of all US searches, Yahoo 19.9%, Microsoft 12.9%, AOL 5.6% and Ask 1.7%."



Google: Websites that may merit a low landing page quality score

"Types of websites that will be penalized with low landing page quality scores:

Data collection sites that offer free gifts, subscription services etc., in order to collect private information, Arbitrage sites that are designed for the sole purpose of showing ads, Malware sites that knowingly or unknowingly install software on a visitor's computer."



Search engine newslets

  • Google to "out open" Facebook on 5 November.
  • Google to end ad agency subsidy.
  • Google Trends is now updated every 24 hours.
  • Google releases a new cost per action tool for AdWords.
  • Google seeks EU approval to buy DoubleClick.
  • Google plans new undersea "Unity" cable across Pacific.
  • Local search site Zillow.com gets additional $30 million.
  • Google security flaw exposed email addresses.
  • Reuters introduces a video search for people.
  • New version of Gmail being tested.
  • New features in Google Print Ads.

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