Kara Swisher in News on August 17, 2010 at 5:10 am PT
The search market-share numbers are out–this time adjusted for a variety of click-happy gimmicks by Microsoft and Yahoo–and it turns out that neither needed the numbers to show better results.
That’s because using “explicit” search, market leader Google lost share in the July results from comScore, compared to the typically share-deprived pair.
While the Google search dominance seems hard to breach, it will be interesting to see the results in the months ahead, as the search partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft finally gets cooking with gas.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 28, 2010 at 2:36 pm PT
Why ask why? Facebook has a question service because everyone has a question service. Couldn’t be clearer, right?
Kara Swisher in News on April 15, 2010 at 6:58 am PT
During my recent sojourn in Los Angeles, BoomTown dropped in on the Melrose Avenue HQ of Clicker, the Web site trying to make search sense of premium video on the Web.
I had a chat with Jim Lanzone, former CEO of fourth-ranked search engine Ask about whether such a service could survive with giants like Google around.
He is certainly trying to differentiate Clicker, which aims to steer clear of both copyright issues and huge bandwidth costs by simply being a helpful friend to consumers in search of good video.
Kara Swisher in News on February 11, 2010 at 11:20 am PT
Aardvark, the social search engine that has been the subject of much attention since it was founded in late 2007, confirmed that is has been acquired.
“We can confirm that we signed a deal to be acquired,” wrote CEO Max Ventilla in an email to BoomTown this morning.
But Ventilla would not reveal the buyer, which a report earlier this morning said is Google, for $50 million.
Google has since confirmed that it is the buyer.
Kara Swisher in News on December 11, 2009 at 12:11 pm PT
Earlier this week, BoomTown motored over to the San Francisco HQ of Aardvark, the social search engine that has been the subject of much attention since it was founded in late 2007.
While there, I got a tour of the 30-person start-up and did a video interview with two of its founders about where Aardvark is headed and more.
Kara Swisher in News on October 13, 2009 at 9:27 pm PT
According to the latest data from comScore, which are the most widely regarded by Wall Street, Bing has not lost market share in the U.S., as some recent reports had suggested.
The September report, which was released to clients today, shows small gains for the Microsoft search service and for Google, while Yahoo lost some share.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 6, 2009 at 4:49 am PT
Barry Diller has tried just about every gambit possible to boost his Ask.com search engine, but he keeps coming up with more. The latest: Coupons.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 15, 2009 at 6:40 am PT
We’ve seen multiple studies showing a boost for Microsoft’s search share since it launched Bing a month ago, and now comScore weighs in and says the same thing. ComScore is the market mover when it comes to this stuff, so it will be interesting to see how Wall Street digests the news. My gut: Not a needle mover.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 14, 2009 at 4:33 am PT
JP Morgan has good news for Microsoft: Its massive ad campaign for Bing is working just fine. The bad news for Microsoft: For most people, Google is already working just fine.
John Paczkowski in D7 on May 28, 2009 at 8:10 am PT
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the software giant’s relaunch of its search offering, dubbed Bing, onstage at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference. Bing is Microsoft’s biggest and priciest attempt yet to catch archrival Google and Yahoo in the search business. It is a market where the typically dominant Microsoft is a mouse in comparison. But, no surprise, that did not stop Ballmer from doing some roaring about Bing.
