Posts Tagged ‘ Search Engines ’
My mailbox overfloweth with comments and suggestions regarding the Google Properties Analysis. The most common suggestion was that I produce a similar analysis for MSN and Yahoo! Properties. Both Yahoo! and MSN demonstrate a typical portal breakdown of properties with their web based mail products in the lead followed by portal front page and search [...][ READ MORE ]
Leveraging the custom category capability of Hitwise, I’ve created a category of the top 20 Google domains in order to understand the popularity of Google’s varied services. The table below details the percentage market share that each property accounts for in relation to all visits to the top 20 Google Domains. As has been the [...][ READ MORE ]
In another testament to the power of links on the Google SERP (search engine result page) and the success of cross media promotion using search, take a look at the following chart on visits to Sonypictures.com (this is where the official Davinci Code Quest site is housed): By looking at the Hitwise clickstream report for [...][ READ MORE ]
I awoke this morning while on the road in Sydney Australia to the news that Amazon was switching search providers from Google to MSN. I agree with Danny Sullivan’s analysis here on Search Engine Watch, that while the A9 switch is interesting, the greater impact will probably come from Amazon’s serving of MSN listings from [...][ READ MORE ]
The blogosphere has been abuzz this past week about Pontiac’s new TV spot that features a Google screen capture with “Pontiac” entered in the search box. The ad voice-over states “don’t take our word for it, Google Pontiac to find out.” Pontiac’s spot represents a new form of Internet call-to-action. Rather than driving users to [...][ READ MORE ]
