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Australian Search Engine Market update October 2010

Looking at the Search Engine market shares for October there really are not many surprises. Unlike the USA – Yahoo in Australia has never commanded much of the search queries generated whilst Google has been around. Even with the Yahoo7! partnership and limited TV advertising Yahoo receives this has not impacted their search market share […]

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Mobile Search Market Share, July 2010 [STATS]

David Correll on July 30, 2010 | Mobile Search | Comments (0)

Pingdom.com has recently conducted a random study of mobile users and their searching behaviour. Google currently has 98.29% market share in mobile search. The shares by Yahoo and Bing in comparison are minimal. Apple devices are probably contributing to around half the Google traffic being generated. Here is the graph from Pingdom. Bing and Yahoo […]

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Google Mobile Search and Ads Growing Rapidly in 2010

David Correll on July 21, 2010 | Google Mobile Search | Comments (0)

Not only has the volume of Google mobile search more than quintupled over the last two years, but the clickthrough rate for its click to call mobile ads are 6-8% better than ads on search without a number or URL associated with it according to Mike Steib, director of the new platforms at Google. Steib, […]

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Google acquires ITA Software for $700million USD, enhancing Travel Search

David Correll on July 2, 2010 | Google Search | Comments (0)

Google has purchased ITA Software (www.itasoftware.com), a company known for its airfare search and pricing system QPX. The ITA Software is used by many US and international airlines. The acquisition was done in $700 million USD, cash. No stock purchase this time from Google. This is an area Google feels they have some ground to […]

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Mobile search growing

David Correll on June 17, 2010 | Mobile Search | Comments (0)

With the abundance of cheap web enabled mobile phones now – businesses cannot ignore the power of mobile search. Currently mobile search only accounts for about 9% of all search queries (with the other 91% on the computer). RBC Capital Markets in the US have done a study showing that currently mobile search accounts for […]

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RUMOR: Google search to be replaced with Bing on iPhone

David Correll on May 29, 2010 | Android Apple Bing Google iPhone Search Search Engines Yahoo | Comments (0)

There have been many rumors amongst tech news publishers that Bing will replace Google as the default search provider on the iPhone once OS4 is rolling out to devices globally. This is kind of expected especially considering that Google’s Android has been stealing market share from the iPhone over the last several months. Apple apparently […]

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