comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace for December 2007. Among core search engines in December 2007, Google Sites remained the top search property with 5.6 billion core searches conducted, representing a 58.4 percent share of the search market. December U.S. Core Search Rankings
A Hundred Grand for Building a Search Engine
Singapore has launched a contest for developing a next-generation multi-media online search engine. The contest has allowed for eight months time to build the engine and the reward is a 100,000 US dollar cash prize, as has been reported at Physorg.
Fixing Fallen Search Engine Rankings
Are you baffled about a recent drop in your search engine rankings? Do you know where to start and get a handle on what the problem might be and how to remedy it?
Wired Dubs Search Engine Land A Spammer
Ross Mayfield took umbrage to Barry Schwartz creating a page on Wired’s How To Wiki and pointing the page to Search Engine Land.
Search Engine Pitfalls & Remedies of Redesigning Websites
After a couple of beers and a bit of soul searching on the web planning front my SEO specialist friend and I noticed that many businesses that have new websites aren’t aware of the effects changing of host servers and web page names can have on their search engine ranking. What’s more shocking is that many web developers don’t advise clients about the down side of changing or redesigning web sites, or even recommend best ways of reducing loss of ranking.
Building Your Own Local Search Engine
Quite a few bloggers out there have clued-in to how using Eurekster’s Swickis on their blogs can be a cool feature enhancement, providing custom thematic search engines for their users.
Search Engine Fatigue Infects Many Users
Carpal tunnel syndrome . . . eyestrain . . . and search engine fatigue. Yes, there’s now one more problem from which deskbound people are likely to suffer.
Yahoo Still Top Search Engine In Japan
In many technological aspects, Japan’s got America beat. Hands-down, where-is-my-robot-butler beat. Which makes me wonder about the implications of Yahoo’s continued success in that country.
Sina Strengthens Its Search Engine And Portal
We all know about Internet censorship in China – search engines may or (more probably) may not return results for any sensitive queries. But now, when Sina wants to deliver an answer, it will be able to do so more reliably.
Google China Gets Blog Search Engine
Imagine a life-size model of a car. It might look nice, but as for functionality . . . Similarly, Google China had a blog search site that didn’t do much of anything. The company has just dropped in an engine, though, and (censorship issues aside) users can have at it.