The search engine wars continue. Earlier this month, we reported that Google’s search market share has fallen to its lowest level since 2008. The major impetus behind these changes involves the recent Yahoo-Firefox deal, in which Mozilla replaced Google with Yahoo as the default search engine in its browser.
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Many might consider Google+ to be a black sheep among social media networks. Despite claiming to have around 540 million active users, many people feel that Google+ is a ghost town when compared to networks such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.
Everybody knows that getting visitors to your website is tough. Unfortunately, keeping visitors on your site is just as difficult. Your content needs to be engaging and concise if it’s going to stand any chance of keeping a reader’s attention. Realistically, most visitors don’t finish written content and many don’t even scroll down at all, so it’s essential to make sure your writing accomplishes goals quickly.
Google is the undisputed king of search. According to the latest numbers from Statcounter, Google had 75.2 percent of the search engine market share in December of 2014. However, while that number is indicative of Google’s domination, it’s actually a significant decrease from the prior month (77.3 percent) and from December of 2013 (79.3 percent). Google’s market share hasn’t been this low since 2008.
A Pew Research report published last week has outlined some of the major trends in social media use over the last year in America. Unsurprisingly, the popularity of many social networks continues to grow, with many platforms seeing significant increases in user numbers.