Yahoo!’s March 2010 Search Update Underway

Yahoo!’s March 2010 Search Update Underway

The announcement was as short as usual.

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Wazap Adds Browser Search Plugin

Wazap Adds Browser Search Plugin
The gaming search engine now offers a way to gain Wazap information from Google, Yahoo and MSN Live SERPs. When you do a search for game-related terms, the plugin offers a new box above the number one position that links to news, cheats, articles, etc. I love the concept, because for gamers, it puts information that they care about front and center. When Google Universal Search rolled

Experian Hitwise: Bing and Ask searches increase in January 2010

Experian Hitwise: Bing and Ask searches increase in January 2010

According to Experian Hitwise data released today, searches on Bing increased 5 percent and search on Ask increased 4 percent in January 2010, while searches on Google decreased 1 percent and searches on Yahoo! decreased 2 percent.

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Meet Google Buzz, Not the Same as Yahoo! Buzz

Meet Google Buzz, Not the Same as Yahoo! Buzz

Will Google’s version give Facebook and Twitter a run for their money?

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Bing’s Top Execs Say the Search Engine Will Become Profitable

Bing’s Top Execs Say the Search Engine Will Become Profitable
Senior vice president of Microsoft’s online audience business, Yusuf Mehdi, says that Bing will be a credible number two search engine, once the Yahoo-Bing deal is closed.

Microsoft Online Division Revenues Improve, But Remain at a Loss

Microsoft Online Division Revenues Improve, But Remain at a Loss

Microsoft has reported its Q2 2009 earnings (Q4 for many other companies) and the news is mixed for their online services division. Revenues improved over the previous quarter, but came in at a 5% loss year-over-year.

Specifically, online revenues for Q2 came in at $581 million, compared to $609 million the year prior. Q2 losses came in at $466 million compared with $320 million in Q2 2008.

The loss was blamed on a decrease in overall online advertising revenues. However, the silver lining was that Bing brought a growth in search revenues for Microsoft.

If Bing continues to grow, then Microsoft will do well to capitalize on its strengths to build a stronger online services division. Of course, the deal with Yahoo! should help as well.

Yahoo! Rolls Out January 2010 Search Update

Yahoo! Rolls Out January 2010 Search Update

Yahoo! is rolling out their monthly search algorithm change. You might notice some shakeup in the rankings as a result. This will take place over the next few days.

Yahoo! alerted the search community to the update via a typically brief and vague message on their Search Marketing blog:

The Yahoo! Search engineering teams are rolling out updates to crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms. Similar to previous updates, you may notice some ranking changes and page shuffling during the process, which we expect to complete over the next few days.

Thank you for the feedback, letting us know the community still finds these Weather Reports helpful. To share your thoughts on this latest update, please visit the Site Explorer Suggestion Board.

Have you observed any changes in Yahoo! rankings? Share your findings in the comments below.

Yahoo! Earnings: Revenues Down but Profits Up

Yahoo! Earnings: Revenues Down but Profits Up

Yahoo! announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2009 today. Revenues came in at $1.7 billion, which was down 4% compared to a year ago but up 10% compared to the third quarter.

Profits were up. Way up.

Income came in at $119 million, compared to a *loss* of $278 million in Q4 2008. Net income diluted per share came in at $0.11. It would have been $0.15 if not for charges related to the aforementioned deal with Microsoft.

“The fourth quarter marked a strong finish to 2009, which was a transformative year for Yahoo!,” said Yahoo! Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz.

2009 was indeed transformative. At the beginning of the year, Bartz joined the company as CEO. The search deal with Microsoft was struck in the summer. About one month later, Yahoo!’s focus on their media properties was pushed into high gear with a brand new advertising campaign. These effort seem to have literally paid off.

Yahoo! anticipates the good news to keep on rolling this year.

“Our business has positive momentum and we feel good as we head into 2010,” said Bartz. “We’re pleased that the midpoint of our Q1 revenue outlook marks the first quarter of year-over-year growth in six quarters.”

Wall Street likes the earnings and seems to be hopeful about the prospect of what’s to come. After hours trading was up 2.25% at the time of this post.

Google fourth quarter results: Exceeds expectations

Google fourth quarter results: Exceeds expectations
Google announced financial results for the quarter and the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009. Google fourth quarter earning exceeded analyst expectations  and continued its strong growth despite efforts from Microsoft and Yahoo to take some of the search giant market share. Google reported earnings of $1.97 billion, or $6.13 a …

comScore says global search market grew 46 percent in 2009‏

comScore says global search market grew 46 percent in 2009‏

comScore has just released a study on growth in the global search market in 2009. The study revealed that the U.S. remains the largest search market worldwide, while Google Sites retains a commanding position in the global search market.

More than 131 billion searches were conducted worldwide in December 2009, a 46-percent increase in the past year. This number represents more than 4 billion searches per day, 175 million per hour, and 29 million per minute.

The U.S. represented the largest search market in the world with 22.7 billion searches, or approximately 17 percent of searches conducted globally. China ranked second with 13.3 billion searches, followed by Japan with 9.2 billion and the U.K. with 6.2 billion.

Google sites ranked as the top search property worldwide with 87.8 billion searches in December, or 66.8 percent of the global search market. Google sites achieved a 58-percent increase in search query volume over the past year. comScore didn’t report what percentage of worldwide searches were conducted on Google and YouTube separately, just Google sites in combination. But according to comScore qSearch, YouTube accounted for close to 28 percent of the expanded search queries conducted in the U.S. on Google sites in November 2009.

Yahoo! sites ranked second globally with 9.4 billion searches (up 13 percent), followed by Chinese search engine Baidu with 8.5 billion searches (up 7 percent). Microsoft sites saw the greatest gains among the top five properties, growing 70 percent to 4.1 billion searches, on the strength of its successful introduction of new search engine Bing.

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