The digital world has been measured.
The global online audience has surpassed the one billion mark, according to comScore.
“It is a monument to the increasingly unified global community in which we live and reminds us that the world truly is becoming more flat. The second billion will be online before we know it, and the third [...]
As reported by the BBC, current users of all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer browser are currently vulnerable to getting hijacked due to a serious security flaw that has yet to be fixed.
It’s been reported that at least seven versions of the browser have been affected by this flaw and as many as 10,000 websites [...]
Mac vs. PC = eternal battle.
As you know, Microsoft Live Labs recently launched Photosynth, the software which arranges a collection of digital images into their 3D context. It’s a cool application that you can download directly to your computer ( PC not Mac ) along with its corresponding web browsing plug-in that enables you to [...]
Internet activity lagging a bit lately? Blame it on the summer.
Not for Google though, the search monster has instead maintained a visitor growth rate of 1.6% between June 2008 to July 2008 according to Hitwise. Currently it holds a total market share of 70.77% amongst all leading search engine providers in the US.
Following Google, not [...]
After much speculation on the subject, Google and Digg, the user generated site, look like they’re finally gonna tie the knot.
Rumors in the beginning put Microsoft as a possible contender for Google, however, Google’s bid was always above or around $200/$225 million.
Since previous attempts early this year, it’s been quite a roller coaster-. Sources from [...]
As if being king of kings amongst all search engines wasn’t enough, Google is also scoring similar on mobile search.
Leaving its competitors shamefully behind, once again, Google was able to grasp 61% of the mobile search market as reported by Nielsen. Then, and I’m going to have to steal Mike Slocombe’s (from Digital Lifestyles) [...]
I guess its safe to say competition is officially over between search engines. Google has literally ’stomped over’ as Search Engine Land says, all existing providers. The latest stats as Compete plots out, go something like this:
Google: 71.5%
Yahoo: 13.3%
Microsoft Live: 10.6%
Ask: 3.0%
AOL: 1.2%
Impressive. But we kinda already knew this. So one thing is the [...]
It ain’t over ‘til the fat lady sings. What do we know about Microsoft and Yahoo!. The latest is that supposedly, they’ve called it quits.
Yahoo! issued a communication declaring that all intentions and possible transactions regarding what could have been a partial or ‘all out’ merge with Microsoft, have come to an end. ‘With respect [...]
comScore.com has recently released the March 2008 statistics for European search engine market share. Google’s figures are very impressive: according to comScore.com data, nearly 8 out of 10 search queries originate from Google’s web site. Google currently has 79.2% of the search market share in Europe, meaning that we can talk about a unopposed monopoly [...]
Posted in Marketing Analysis on May 12th, 2008Now we know what Yahoo! had been up to all this time. Sorry Microsoft, but you were obviously not in any of Yahoo!’s priorities and neither were they much concerned about shouting their final verdict before the 3-week ultimatum expired.
Instead Yahoo! had been cooking up the expansion of its platform to fit one more similar [...]
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