Tag: "AOL"
Looking back on AOL, when online goes offline

This past week, US internet giant AOL gained worldwide exposure for their $315 million buyout of blog conglomerate Huffington Post. Hearing the news while living in the ‘land down under’, I realised that prior to this event, many Australians wouldn’t have known what AOL was (with the exception of some who caught the 1998 Meg […]
Read More | ShareBing and Google Click thru Rates, CTR

While Google still dominates the world of search engines, Bing made some noise quiet since its introduction, slow growth of market share each month. Some experts believe the Internet will soon be released Google "search engine Caffeine" is partly a response to Bing. If you search online you will find SEO professionals, who have been […]
Read More | ShareAOL finally sells Bebo

There have been reports that AOL have finally sold the social network – Bebo. AOL originally purchased Bebo in 2008 for US$850 million. Unfortunately AOL has been unable to make anything out of Bebo and the purchase has been considered a major business flop. Criterion Capital Partners seem to have now purchased Bebo for around […]
Read More | ShareSearch Engine rankings – April

As Australian search engine data is not as freely available we look at the US market data courtesy of Neilson company. In April 9.72 billion online searches we run. Google had 65.7% market share at 6.4 billion searches. Yahoo had 13.4% market share at 1.3 billion searches. Microsoft’s Bing had 12.2% market share at 1.2 […]
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