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Yahoo Search Share Rises As Google Declines
TechWeb —
... market share in January 2009, compared to December 2008, according to comScore , putting the company's share of U.S. searches at 21%. Microsoft saw its U.S. search market share rise as well. It gained 0.2 percentage points to capture 8.5% of the U.S search market. ...
Yahoo Search Share Rises As Google Declines
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... market share in January 2009, compared to December 2008, according to comScore , putting the company's share of U.S. searches at 21%. Microsoft saw its U.S. search market share rise as well. It gained 0.2 percentage points to capture 8.5% of the U.S search market. ...
Search Roundup: Twitter; ComScore; Yahoo; Lobbyists/AdWords
paidContent —
... —Google dips, Yahoo shows life in comScore's January search report: Google's choke hold on the search market slipped by half a percentage point in January, while Yahoo's increased by the same amount, per comScore. Of course, Google maintained a massive 63 percent market share, even with the dip—but Yahoo's gain comes as part of a six-month streak of increases that have left its market share at 21 percent. It's a trend that could give shareholders reason to rejoice, ...
Yahoo Search Shares Increase as Google Slips
Search Engine Journal —
... I really do not think that this is that much of a significant change to declare that Google has hit its peak in market share, it may show however that Yahoo’s new testing of its search heavy homepage and further integration of search results into the Yahoo Network and via Yahoo Buzz may have some influence on its search usage. Interestingly enough, despite its rise in Yahoo searches, the comScore data shows a drop in search query usage by Yahoo partners. ...
Yahoo 2.0: Richer ads and a tiny piece of Google’s audience
Between the Lines —
... is gearing up for a broader rollout, Yahoo is starting to pitch the benefits. The company says rich ads allow customers to: Mixing up that section of the search results page is a good idea. I love a good video and might be willing to click on one that’s part of an ad. If it’s really creative or funny, I might even share it with friends - which is what I already do with video, whether it’s an ad or not. For Yahoo, there’s also that whole momentum thing. Comscore this week reported its U.S. search engine rankings for January 2009 and found that, while Google remains the leader, ...
Google Drops & Yahoo Gains In Search Share, comScore
Search Engine Roundtable —
comScore released their January 2009 report on search market share, and for the first time in a while, Google's share declined month to month. In December 2008, Google had a 63.5 % share, but in January, they dropped down to a 63.0% share. Yahoo gained month to month with a gain from 20.5% to 21.0%. Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in December with 63.0 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (21.0 percent), Microsoft Sites (8.5 percent), AOL LLC (3.9 percent) and Ask Network (3.7 percent). In any event, you need to understand this is month to ...
Microsoft Wants Chat With Yahoo About Search Deal
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... together. Ballmer, however, said there's been no movement toward talks yet. "I don't know if anything is going happen," he said. A partnership would make sense given Google's lead in search, Ballmer said. In comparison, Microsoft has a "small share." As of December, Google accounted for 63% of Web searches in the U.S., followed by Yahoo, 21%, and Microsoft, 8.5%, according to Web metrics firm ComScore. While investors have often said Ballmer should abandon the search and advertising market, which he acknowledged has been "very unprofitable" for Microsoft, the company ...
Microsoft Wants Chat With Yahoo About Search Deal
TechWeb —
... together. Ballmer, however, said there's been no movement toward talks yet. "I don't know if anything is going happen," he said. A partnership would make sense given Google's lead in search, Ballmer said. In comparison, Microsoft has a "small share." As of December, Google accounted for 63% of Web searches in the U.S., followed by Yahoo, 21%, and Microsoft, 8.5%, according to Web metrics firm ComScore. While investors have often said Ballmer should abandon the search and advertising market, which he acknowledged has been "very unprofitable" for Microsoft, the company ...
@Beet.TV: News Video Is a Different Beast
NewTeeVee —
... “News is fundamentally a shared experience,” Ma said. She advocated the value of providing a social forum to discuss the news. She also noted that YouTube fosters a different sort of behavior for news consumption than news portals, because people don’t come to the site to browse the day’s headlines. Instead, they arrive with a story already in mind, and search to find clips or additional footage and commentary. (Recall YouTube is now the second-biggest U.S. search site beating out Yahoo.) ...
YouTube Is Missing a Golden Video Search Opportunity
NewTeeVee —
... YouTube is the reigning king of the online video world, especially in the U.S., and it’s branched out into the search domain to knock off Yahoo as the second-most popular U.S. search engine. Recently, I’ve become convinced that the site could make itself even more useful by transforming itself into the ultimate video search engine and linking to content it doesn’t have. ...
