Monthly archive of 6 October 2009
Bing Needs Trump Card, As September Shows First Drop
Posted Tuesday 6th October 2009 by Craig H
Stock market shares do not move in steady curves, they are subject to fluctuations both positive and negative. So recent news that Bing’s incremental gains against Google may have stalled last month might not be reason for despondency on the part of Bing. However, Google will no doubt be welcoming the news. It looked as if users were responding positively to Bing’s novel search, increasing its market share from 5.71% in September 2008 to 9.64% in August of this year. But September showed the first drop in that period, slipping to 8.51% according to StatCounter and NetApplications. Interesting findings, but until other sources such as Compete, ComScore, Hitwise and Nielsen report their stats, it is too soon to draw any major conclusions.
Google Search Updates And SEO
Posted Tuesday 6th October 2009 by Kerry
Google have launched a more refined Google Search to help people find the relevant pages they are looking for. This is needed more than ever for searchers as the number of unique pages indexed by the search engine grows by millions a day, adding to the one trillion pages already in existence according to a 2008 calculation. Apparently, the new search options have been implemented to allow users to refine searches according to fixed parameters such as date range and types of result. This means that SEO strategies are going to have to change if optimisation companies want to keep traffic up for their clients’ sites.
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