Should Yahoo have stuck with being a search engine and spreading the SEO market around a little? Ditching their own search results in favor of Bing driven SERPs, Yahoo moved towards being more of a content source and news site. Carol Bartz spearheaded the change, but now she’s been chopped from Yahoo’s staff. After being [...]
Yahoo Fires Bartz, Founders After Abandoning Search
September 8th, 2011Is Bing Now Google’s Biggest Adversary?
June 7th, 2011Usually we discuss SEO and how it relates to Google, but the Microsoft search engine Bing deserves a little attention too. Slowly but surely, Bing is increasing in market share and becoming a force that merit’s a look when strategizing page rank goals. Bing is markedly different from Google in more ways than just appearance, [...]
Google Traffic Stats
May 27th, 2010According to a recent study done by Chitika, the top spot in Google gets twice as much traffic as the number 2 spot, and three times as much as third place. The research report, called “The Value of Google Result Positioning”, reveals that: “The top spot drove 34.35% of all traffic in the sample, almost [...]
Beta Bing, Beta Boom?
March 9th, 2010A new force is now powering nearly have of Bing queries, according to Microsoft. The new MSN portal has been awaited with baited breath, and the beta release has people rushing to try out Bing’s new interface. MSN Is Changing for the Better Everything You Love & More… According to Bob Visse, GM for MSN [...]
Kids in UK See Search Engine Results as Gospel Truth
October 9th, 2009According to a recent study, if it’s in the top results of the SERPs, one out of three children in Great Britain assume it’s true. An exhaustive report from Ofcom (a UK regulatory agency) concerning media literacy found that 32 percent of UK children aged 12-15 years old are of the conviction that the links/listings [...]