“If nothing else, it will at least get people to realize that Microsoft is in this game and that there is an alternative to Google…”
Bing has come out swinging and is currently experiencing more buzz than Live Search ever had. With what appears to be a good product, and an aggressive advertising campaign against Google [...]
Posted in Search Engine Marketing on June 24th, 2009
Rumors say it’s the next ‘Google killer’ (haven’t we already heard this? Cuil, maybe?) others, the next-generation search engine. Truth is, it’s just the beginning of Wolfram Alpha, the new computational search engine, which was recently unveiled just last week.
Wikipedia defines Wolfram Alpha as an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the [...]
Posted in Search Engine Marketing on May 18th, 2009
The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) from the Russian Federation has finally put its foot down on the Google-Begun deal as anticipated in our previous article.
According to the press release (for the moment available only in Russian) on the official site of the FAS, they have received a request from a privately-owned limited liability company KOKUNA [...]
Posted in Media News on October 23rd, 2008
In July, Google agreed to buy for $140 million 100% of the company Begun, Russian contextual advertising company, from the UK-registered Rambler Media Ltd., operating one of Russia’s most popular internet brands Rambler. The parties had planned to complete it before the end of September, however due to skepticism on behalf of the FAS (Federal [...]
Posted in Media News on October 17th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Marketing Analysis on August 20th, 2008
We know Google has clearly established if not the most powerful and recognized brand in the history of online marketing. At least if anyone were to mention the word internet to me, the first thing that pops in my mind is Google, and I’m sure I’m not the only one out there (except some really [...]
Posted in Media News on June 10th, 2008
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