Searches up, Google up
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Americans conducted 12.6 billion core searches in October 2008 - up 7% from September - while Google maintained its top position accounting for nearly two-thirds of all core* searches conducted, according to the monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the US search marketplace.
June 2008 U.S. search engine rankings
Saturday, July 19th, 2008comScore released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In June 2008, Americans conducted 11.5 billion core searches, representing a 7-percent gain versus May. Google Sites retained its lead in the U.S. core search market capturing 61.5 percent of the searches conducted, down slightly from 61.8 percent in May. Google was followed [...]
Powerset, a Google killer?
Thursday, May 15th, 2008The San Francisco startup Powerset went live on Monday (12th May 2008) with its new semantic search engine for the Internet. The launch of the service has been anticipated for months, with US media speculating about the chances for success of the service, referred to both as the “Google killer” and a takeover target for [...]
Eco search engine: real stuff or marketing?
Friday, April 18th, 2008Ecocho.co.uk, the world’s first free green search engine that offsets carbon emissions at no cost to the user, launched this week in the UK and 14 countries across the world. Powered by Google and Yahoo, ecocho.co.uk is an Australian initiative designed to fight climate change by sponsoring the planting of up to two trees for [...]
Welcome Wikia!
Monday, January 7th, 2008Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, launches today Wikia, the new search engine powered by people, not robots! I tried the beta version and it works just fine. Take that Google!.
