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Efficient Frontier has just released a search engine ad share report for the 4th quarter of last year. They found that Google held onto its 76% market share while Yahoo actually gained 3%.
Here are additional trends they found:

Large vs. Small Advertisers: Small advertisers in the U.S. accounted for a greater [...]

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OK, so maybe people really will be spending less money online this holiday season.  You certainly wouldn’t know that based on the insane traffic levels several online retailers experienced yesterday.
It seems that the traffic was just too much for some servers to handle.  Among the websites that crashed yesterday were Sears.com and LiveCashback.
Too bad because [...]

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The latest United States search share rankings report by Nielsen Online is out and the figures should come as no surprise.  Google search share continues to grow.  Microsoft and Yahoo fall even further behind.
According to the October 2008 report, Google’s share of the U.S. search market reached a 6 month high of 61.2%. That’s a [...]

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Along with killing Lively and axing SearchWiki, it appears Google has also pulled the plug on SearchMash.
SearchMash was an experimental, non-branded search engine that Google used to play around with new search methodoligies.  It debuted in October 2006 and was released to the public exactly one year after. Some people actually traded in Google Search [...]

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Reminder: Monty’s Trick or Treat is coming up next!  Stay tuned!
It’s nice too see that the search engines have a sense of humor when it comes to Halloween.  Just about all of them have some sort of tricked out logo design for Halloween.  Don’t have time to go and check them out?
Then just take a [...]

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REMINDER: Only 2 more days until Monty’s Trick or Treat (10/31/08).  It’s going to be 100% free.
Google executives are said to be panicking in the streets this morning, after comScore revealed that their search volume share dropped a MASSIVE 0.10 percent, from 63.00 percent to a whopping 62.90 percent. Forget saving the world, they’re just [...]

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Microsoft has unveiled yet another tactic to try and get web surfers to use LiveSearch.  Today, comes word that they are launching SearchPerks.
Microsoft’s latest strategy gives web searchers points when they use LiveSearch, which can be redeemed for prizes. Users who sign-up before the December 31 deadline, must agree to download a small program that [...]

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