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U.S. January Search Share For Google Fell, With Gains For Others
"Google saw its share of the search engine market in the United States fall slightly during January 2009, while its three largest rivals Yahoo, Microsoft and Time Warner's AOL each increased their shares."
New Status Dashboard for Google Apps
New Status Dashboard for Google Apps
googleenterprise.blogspot.com — We made a commitment last year to increase transparency and communication with Google Apps customers in several ways. We heard your feedback around the need for better communication when issues like yesterday's Gmail outage occur. As part of that ... (more) New Status Dashboard for Google Apps
Google Street View Case Dismissed--Boring v. Google
blog.ericgoldman.org — By Eric Goldman Boring v. Google, Inc., 2:08-cv-00694-ARH (W.D. Pa. Feb. 17, 2009) You may recall the Boring case from... (more) Google Street View Case Dismissed--Boring v. Google
comScore Releases January 2009 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
comscore.com — RESTON, VA, February 18, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In January 2009, Americans conducted 13.5 billion core ... (more) comScore Releases January 2009 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
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Google Drops & Yahoo Gains In Search Share, comScore
Search Engine Roundtable — ... 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 month and you need to look at the numbers over time. So I wouldn't jump to any conclusions after looking at the monthly numbers. A WebmasterWorld thread is discussing this and one member said something very funny, as to a ...

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