Even before the highly publicized news about Google’s bold plan to produce uncensored search results in China, its popularity in the mainland has been dwindling. This is according to iResearch, a local Chinese search consultancy firm. In addition to Google losing search market share in mainland, Yahoo! and Bing also lost a certain portion of their [...]
Continue reading Google, Yahoo, Bing Lost Search Engine Market Share in China in 200928. March 2009
According to comScore qSearch, 221 million searches were conducted in Singapore in February, a 43-percent increase versus year ago. This represents a 43% hike compared to last year. Are Singaporeans now more reliant on search engines? Top Search Properties in Singapore by Query Volume February 2009 Searches (M) Searches / Searcher Search Share Total Internet 221 100 100% Google Sites 146 74.0 66% Yahoo! Sites 39 27.8 17.4% Baidu 8 29.2 3.8% Microsoft Sites 5 7.4 2.5% Ask Network 5 9.2 2.2% Sohu 5 24.2 2.1% Facebook 4 8.0 1.9% Friendster 3 6.6 1.3% Wikimedia Sites 1 5.0 0.6% Ebay 1 8.6 0.5%
Continue reading Singapore Search Engine Market Share in February 200926. July 2008
Yahoo! seems to have problems accommodating search queries recently because I noticed that a simple search yielded no results. Instead, an error message was promptly displayed in behalf of the expected page listings: We had temporary problems searching for web pages. Search again for [search query] or type a new query above. Percentage of search queries for [...]
Continue reading Yahoo! Search Problem27. June 2008
Google, Yahoo and Baidu have found themselves atop Asia’s search rankings, with Korean Internet users looking for information most often, a comScore survey released Tuesday said. Google Sites led the region with 39.1 percent of all searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (24 percent) and Baidu.com (16.7 percent). Google led the region with 39.1% of all [...]
Continue reading Google, Yahoo!, Baidu Lead Asia Search Volume26. June 2008
This isn’t much about search engine optimization but basically this is about user experience. Once in a while I visit Marketing Interactive website because I like the fresh news that is interesting (not necessarily relevant) to me. However, one ad that annoys me is that one from Euro RCSG that mimics a medical instrument used [...]
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27. February 2010
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