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Google Traffic Stats

May 27th, 2010

According 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 as [...]

 
 

Beta Bing, Beta Boom?

March 9th, 2010

A 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 at Microsoft,  [...]

 
 

Kids in UK See Search Engine Results as Gospel Truth

October 9th, 2009

According 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 shown [...]

 
 

Google Update Mismatches Local Results

July 2nd, 2009

Google UK results have been completely scrambled by a major update at the beginning of the month. The results are being utterly overtaken by non-UK websites.
On June 4th, a major update went live across Google. The result? A host of international sites springing to the top of Google UK results.
Rolling changes have developed throughout June as Google apparently [...]

 
 

The SERPs Becoming More Refined and Personal

June 25th, 2009

With the advent of new improved ways to search and the move towards ever more specialized results, being on the front page of the SERPs is more important then ever. When you type a query into one of the major search engines, you now can get more topics then before – categories of answers that [...]