You Have 100 Days To Beat Google
Needless to say, Microsoft didn’t manage to meet that somewhat bizarre challenge. “Microsoft may have been willing to spend years developing Vista, the long-delayed upgrade of its Windows operating system, but when Bill Gates was presented with a plan for finally beating Google in Internet search technology, he gave the engineers just 100 days“ When I was invited to Redmond …
Google And Yahoo Gain Market Share, MSN & Ask Slip
Google has increased its share of the U.S. internet search market to 47.4 percent. Yahoo also edged higher to 28.5. ComScore Networks Microsoft’s share slid 0.5 percent to 10.5 percent, as did Ask.com’s, slipping 0.1 percent to 5.4 percent. 0.1%? I wonder what the margin of error was? More people were searching in December. An estimated 6.7 billion searches were …
(Old) Cranky Search
Too many young whipper-snappers cluttering your search results with new-fangled Myspace glitter-junk? Trying to find information about your prostate, but Paris Hilton keeps popping up instead? New search engine, called “Cranky“, might be just the tonic. The engine targets the 50+ demographic, and quite a lucrative demographic it is, too: “Eons has teamed with Compete, an online market research company, …
Moving From Bloglines To Google Reader
What feed reader do you use? I’ve used Bloglines for some time now, but, being new year and all, I wondered if there was something better? So I’ve been trying out Google Reader. I didn’t much like it when it first came out but I certainly find I’m liking it now. The biggest improvement over Bloglines, for me, is that …
iPhone Sure To Be A Huge Success
Purely on the basis that Dvorak thinks it won’t be.
Website Metrics
The language of Site Metrics is by no means uniform. Hits are often confused with uniques, and pageviews are often confused with impressions. So let’s take a moment to clear things up a bit.
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