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Wed Mar, 2012 by Derek Mehraban
The data for February’s search market share has been released by comScore. Both Google and Bing have gained share. Combined, they both gained .4% of the market. Both gains come at the expense of Yahoo, which lost the .4%. AOL remains unchanged at 1.6% and in a strange case of numbers not adding up (probably [...]
Fri Feb, 2012 by Derek Mehraban
Thursday morning President Obama introduced a Consumer Bill of Rights. Google, Yahoo!, AOL and Microsoft are all stating they will voluntarily comply with the bill. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome already have ‘do not track’ options even though they are rarely used. That is the main component of the Bill of Rights. For now all [...]
Thu Jul, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
For the second quarter in a row, Yahoo!’s revenue continued to fall. Industry wide spending on display advertising is up, but Yahoo! has such little share compared to Google and FaceBook that it is unable to mount growth in digital advertising revenue. Part of the blame rests on the contract Yahoo! Inked with Microsoft’s Bing. [...]
Wed May, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
In October Yahoo announced the beta version of its Mail system’s redesign. There were promises, which leaving beta means Yahoo mail is achieving. Faster load times, social integration, and an improved search function are some of the offerings of the redesign. Yahoo Mail currently has 277 million users, which is a 1% drop from its [...]
Wed Mar, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Yahoo called the fight and now it is down to just Bing and Google in the search engine wars. As of now Google is clearly the leader, as most searches go through Google. Google also seems best poised for the mobile search wars, which are soon to begin. However, Microsoft is a big dog in [...]
Wed Feb, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Richard Branson is looking to expand the Virgin empire into the daily deals space established and dominated by Groupon. It is not yet certain as Branson is searching for some additional and external funding. While the field may seem saturated with competitors (Google’s initiative, LivingSocial, as well as a supposed Yahoo entrant as well) the [...]
Wed Jan, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
Yahoo says it expected the loss this last quarter. It recently merged its search engine with Bing and knew it would take time for that venture to pay off. Meanwhile Google upped its market share of searching from 77% last year to 82%. The verdict is still out on what this means for the future [...]
Wed Jan, 2011 by Derek Mehraban
The biggest complaint of TV, even long before the internet age, was the delay in feedback. Nielsen ratings tried to bridge this gap. Surveys and focus groups were the only other way for TV producers to receive feedback, but those were inherently limited means. Yahoo introduced a product at CES that will change that. Photo [...]
Mon Dec, 2010 by Derek Mehraban
In October the rumor was of an AOL acquisition of Yahoo. Now the talk is almost the reverse. Almost. The latest rumors have AOL being split up into two companies, its dial-up service (which still serves millions) and its content/advertising branch. Yahoo would then merge (acquire or be acquired by) with the content/advertising arm. Photo [...]
Fri Dec, 2010 by Derek Mehraban
It is not a large revelation, but at least it is data confirming the suspected differences between mobile and regular searches. The regular searches for 2010 were, as usual, celebrity focused except for the BP oil spill. Photo Credit: visionshare The data for mobile searches, while also looking to celebrity news, is different. Mobile search requests are [...]