Monthly archive of 22 October 2009
Google Dominates Search
Posted Thursday 22nd October 2009 by Allison
Google dominates search, and last month achieved a massive near-65 per cent of the search market share, leaving closest rival Yahoo well behind, which only managed to achieve 18.8 per cent.
According to research by ComScore, Google’s share of 64.9 per cent was up from 64.6 per cent in August, where as Yahoo’s share fell from 19.3 per cent in the same month.
Microsoft’s Bing, launched in June, saw some growth in its market share, which rose from 9.3 percent to 9.4 percent.
Twitter Search: What Are The Realtime Alternatives?
Posted Thursday 22nd October 2009 by Tobias
Real Time Relevancy
Google is concerned about real time search, make no mistake about it – that is why they have set up a similar agreement with Twitter to that made by MSN powered search engine, Bing.
Although there is no algorithm in place to filter relevant results, as with Google, Yahoo Search, Bing etc, real time search has its uses, and as more and more people use social media as part of their everyday life, it will be used even more.
Twitter Strikes Deal With Bing
Posted Thursday 22nd October 2009 by Tobias
Realtime Search
Yesterday at the 2009 Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco Microsoft announced that they have struck a deal with Twitter to stream their realtime data. Once again this thrusts the issue of realtime search into the limelight, as Bing will be utilising the Twitter ‘firehose’ of instantaneous updates.
This made Bing the first search engine to have access to the realtime data and they have opted to set up a separate search tool at bing.com/twitter, which will allow users to specifically search twitter data. It is effectively a rebranded Twitter Search and is purely an immediate response to the deal, however we are currently unable to run any tests on it:
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