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    December 19, 2007

    News From comScore

    Alright, I just realized that I’ve been missing some press releases from comScore over the past week (caught in filter) and of course – that’s when all the news comes in. Here’s a summary of what the stats are saying this week:

    December 13, 2007:
    Between the dates of November 1 to December 11, more than $20 billion was spent online showing a whopping 19% increase over last year. eBay has coined the second Monday of December as Green Monday (it is the heaviest online spending day of the season) and this year showed retailers $881 million in love, up 33% over last year and setting the record as the heaviest online spending day in history.

    December 16, 2007:
    The week of the 9th to the 15th marks the heaviest spending date of the season (likely) with $4.7 billion in sales showing a 22% increase over last year.

    Today (December 19, 2007):
    Top 50 Websites released. Comscore’s report of the top 50 website rankings is released. And here are the results:

    1. Yahoo! sites: 136,180,000 uniques
    2. Google sites – 131,538,000 uniques
    3. Microsoft Sites – 119,194,000 uniques
    4. Time Warner Network – 119,084,000 uniques
    5. Fox Interactive Media – 81,325,000 uniques
    6. eBay – 80,510,000 uniques
    7. Amazon Sites – 59,058,000 uniques
    8. Wikipedia sites – 55,157,000 uniques
    9. Ask Network – 51,636,000 uniques
    10. New York Times Digital – 47,997,000 uniques

    And for the rest of the list you’ll just have to read their press release ont he topic (there’s lots of other interesting figures in there as well) at http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1974.

    You can view their other press releases at http://www.comscore.com/press/pr.asp.

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    November 23, 2007

    Search Marketshare Numbers For October 2007

    ComScore released it’s numbers for October and, oh my goodness, Google is up. In a rare turn of events the folks at Google appear to have won over some users, increasing their marketshare by 1.5%. The number now break down as follows:

    • Google showed a 1.5% gain from 57% markshare in September to 58.5%
    • Yahoo! realized a 0.8% loss going from 23.7% to 22.9%
    • Microsoft took losses (surprise surprise) going from 10.3% to 9.7%
    • Ask (YEAH !!!) held steady at 4.7%
    • The Time Warner Network lost 0.1% marketshare ending at 4.2%

    Now, that said – it’s not as bad as it looks for the non-Google site. Let’s look at the number of searches conducted on each engine in the month of October which, overall, were up by 11.8%:

    • Google was up 14.8% with 6.151 billion searches in October over 5.356 billion searches in September
    • Yahoo! realized an 8% gain in total searches ending with 2.405 billion searches (up from 2.227 billion in September)
    • Microsoft showed gains in search number though more modest with a 5.6% increase in October going from 969 million searches to 1.023 billion
    • Like Google, Ask’s gains were in the double digits (and since I have a soft spot in my heart for Ask I’m happy to see this) jumping from 444 million searches in September to 491 million with a 10.7% gain in October
    • And the Time Warner Network gained 9.4% in search numbers going from 405 million to 443 million

    You can read more on the ComScore site at http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1908.

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    October 11, 2007

    MSN Takes A Blow

    As if the folks over in Microsoft’s search division didn’t have enough woes in their lives lately (and by “lately” I mean for all the years after people started using search engines) the data released by ComScore yesterday paints a bleak picture. Until yesterday they were at least able to call themselves one of the big three. It appears that they can no longer claim even that. And who is the engine that overtook them? Could Ask finally be making some moves forward? No, the “newcomer” is likely an engine most of you may not have heard of if you’re from North America. The engine is Baidu.com and it’s the primary search engine in China (did you think that might have been Google.cn after all the hoopla over their expansion into there and the debates over their censoring search results?)

    The current marketshare for August 2007 breaks down as follows:

    Search Property Searches
    Worldwide 61,033,000,000
    Google Sites 37,094,000,000
    Yahoo! Sites 8,549,000,000
    Baidu.com Inc 3,253,000,000
    Microsoft Sites 2,166,000,000
    NHN Corporation 2,044,000,000
    eBay 1,319,000,000
    Time Warner Network 1,212,000,000
    Ask Network 743,000,000
    Fox Interactive Media 683,000,000
    Lycos, Inc. 441,000,000

    Another interesting fact is that this does not include access from cyber cafes or cell phones and PDA’s. The Asian market is lightyears ahead of us in their us of their portable devices as full-scale Internet devices which could further influence the results in favor of engines such as Baidu.com if they were counted.

    Another good question you might want to ask is, who the heck is NHN Corporation? They’re a Korean engine and they’re right on the heels of Microsoft as well.

    Does this reflect a dramatic shift in the engines? In my opinion, not really. We’re all used to hearing the data relative to North American or US-based numbers. This is the first comprehensive study of worldwide search behavior that we have been exposed to (that I’ve heard of at least) and it appears that the Asian market is far more active that many of us may have assumed. In retrospect, if we had really though of it, would we have been surprised? I for one am not shocked by the data but it has reminded me that there are important markets outside of North America and Europe and it’s high time we started paying closer attention to them.

    To read the full take on the ComScore data you can read the ComScore press release from yesterday here.

    SEO news blog post by @ 11:15 pm

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    May 24, 2005

    The “Virtual Earth” Belongs To Microsoft

    Never one to let his competitors keep any type of advantage, MSN has announced the the “beta” launch of “Virtual Earth” – their answer to the additiona of satellite images to Google Maps.

    What makes it different is that the images MSN will provide are taken not from satellite but from sleughs of planes and provides not jsut topographical images but 45 degree images as well (which is great visually but I don’t really see how it’ll help me find that new restaurant any faster). :)

    This comes to us through a press release yesterday by Pictometry who just signed a 5-year deal with Microsoft. You can read more on the details of this agreement and the upcoming launch of “Virtual Earth” on the Pictometry website at http://www.pictometry.com/pressrelease/msft.asp (Note: link removed as page no longer exists).

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