A little while back I posted on how MSN/Live.com has improved their search algorithm, but it appears they have in some cases but in others have depreciated.
The below image is a search for “multiz” at MSN/Live.com that should have shown my own site as ranked number one, but as for their new “smart” algorithm that […]
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In a study from PennState, they studied 56 participants from 18 to 29 years old (the demographic most targeted by marketers) to examine various search engine results.
In one part of the study, they flipped the organic search results and the sponsored results (so, the user would feel he/she was viewing opposite results) and the researchers […]
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Here’s the results that were calculated from AOL’s Search:
Ranking Number 1 receives 42.1 percent of click throughs.
Ranking Number 2 receives 11.9 percent of click throughs.
Ranking Number 3 receives 8.5 percent of click throughs.
Ranking Number 4 receives 6.1 percent of click throughs.
Ranking Number 5 receives 4.9 percent of click throughs.
Ranking Number 6 receives […]
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According to a study, 1.4 million searches are done every minute, from comScore. Most of these searches are done directly through Google.
Worldwide, Google earns approximately 60% of all searches worldwide, but in the US Google only earns up to about 50% of all online searches.
The study also stated:
Yahoo Inc. was second worldwide with 8.5 […]
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Live.com (Microsoft’s new approach to searching) now provides a different way of searching than before. Its algorithm changed a little to display different content (rather than just search results) for specific search terms.
These improvements range from having an automatic display of movie showtimes to showing a comparison of shopping results when a user […]
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SquidWho was almost added to the people search page on MultiZ, but a simple test eliminated it from being added.
What the site has to offer
It offers a user-collaborative way of obtaining content about people. So, users are allowed to submit any information about anyone, and this results in speculations and rumors about celebrities, famous […]
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Zippy.co.uk is a decent metasearch engine that allows the user to search, but then also gives the user a quick way to check site statistics:
And then gather information about a site by clicking “information” to the lower-right of the site:
And then finally the information is displayed to the right-hand column:
That’s a simple and quick way […]
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Here’s just some stats and traffic on the popular online search engines.
According to Nielsen//NetRatings in April 2007:
Google has the largest share of U.S. based web searches at 55.2%
Yahoo is second at 21.9%
MSN is third at 9.0%
AOL is fourth at 5.4% - powered by Google
Ask is fifth at 1.8%.
Other, small search engines according […]
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By this time many have heard of the underdog search engine named MyLiveSearch that debuted earlier last month for beta testers — it has potential but as seen below that stats for Google have not worsened in the last month:
But now comes Cuill (pronounced the same as in “cool”). According to TechCrunch:
The company’s main […]
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Visualized search engines contain the common goal of giving you a preview of the site or giving you a visual representation of the data before going to the site.
Without a doubt, the top 3 visualized search engines are Alexa, PageBull and Snap. In one way or another they provide thumbnails sketches or pictures by […]
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