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Search queries getting longer

March 3rd, 2009 No Comments

Not like you really needed an excuse to do a smart thing, but in case you do (or need ammunition to be allowed to go the extra mile), Hitwise is saying that longer search engine queries are becoming more frequent:
The number of Internet search queries of five words or more increased by 10% year over [...]

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SearchWiki is on paid ads now, too

February 16th, 2009 No Comments

You know what’s better than letting an unpopular and easily spammable feature die a quiet death? Letting it affect your ad revenue!
SearchWiki, for those who haven’t heard, is an add-on to Google results when a user is signed on that will allow searchers to move a given result for a given result up, down or [...]

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Yahoo is getting destroyed

January 12th, 2009 No Comments

Word is that Yahoo’s share of the search market dropped from 30.4% in September to 19.4% in December. In this same span of time, MSN rose up to 16.4%. Google’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 112% as usual.
I’m not sure if this is because MSN’s improving or if Yahoo’s bi-monthly giant algorithm changes of doom [...]

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