Although official comScore data for September search market share won’t officially be released until later today, Search Engine Land already has a preview, and the results indicate that Yahoo loses search engine market share while Google managed to make some small gains and Bing held firm from August.
A little under a month ago, Microsoft issued an aggressive challenge to search engine users everywhere in the form of “Bing it On”, a promotion that asked individuals to compare the search results provided by Bing vs. the search results provided by Google for the same queries to determine which ones were better.
Did your business page on Facebook lose a significant number of fans yesterday and today? If so, do not be surprised if you lose even more over the coming months. However, do not fret about it as you most likely didn’t do anything to alienate or irritate your followers and hence, incite a mass exodus.
Earlier today, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman at Google, spoke in Tokyo about how Google has yet to release its own maps app for iOS6 and iPhone 5 (to summarize, they haven’t worked on it at all, and Apple would need to approve it before release — fat chance of that, in light of Apple’s desire for iOS6 users to use Apple Maps instead).
Two days ago we talked about how Bing is quietly trying to differentiate itself from Google by offering more than 10 results per page, something of a no-brainer that many users will probably appreciate. Microsoft is now upping the ante far more directly, with a “side-by-side search off” the company is calling “Bing It On.”
Bing vs. Google – which should you choose when you need to find something online? For most consumers, the decision starts with an even simpler question: “what the heck is the difference, anyways?” Bing, which is largely tied with Yahoo for search engine market share (in other words, way behind the Big G), understands this, and is doing everything it can to differentiate itself from the search giant.
Bad news continues to come down the pipeline for Mark Zuckerberg and company of Facebook, this time in the form of the market analysis group eMarketer slashing the company’s projected earnings for 2012 by a whopping $1 billion.
A new study published by Chitika Insights indicates that Yahoo and Bing search engines are more popular among users of Internet Explorer than users of any other browser, including Safari, Opera, Chrome and Firefox.
As reported by David Angotti and recently published over at Search Engine Journal, a new Google job posting indicates that the search engine giant may actually be taking steps to enhance and protect the privacy of their users.