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DuckDuckGo Has Its First Million-Search Day

duckduckgoThe growth chart continues to trend in the right direction for DuckDuckGo.

It was just about three weeks ago that we wrote about the search engine setting its own record with 731,000 searches in a single day. To go from that to more than a million in a few weeks is impressive. more…

Job Search Engine Adzuna.co.uk Receives £500k Investment Backing from Index Ventures

adzunaAdzuna, the next-generation job search engine, has today announced it has raised £500k investment financing from Index Ventures, The Accelerator Group and existing investors including Passion Capital. The latest funding follows a seed round last year. Launched in July 2011, Adzuna classifieds aims to more…

Search & Mobile Marketing Trends: SEO Apocalypse 2012

seo-four-horsemenThis has been a year where search marketing truly matured. Mobile became one of the largest growth components, with its share of the overall search market now reaching 20 percent.

Looking ahead, expect 2012 to be the year when we push further into the more…

Twitter Dumps on Google for Pushing Google+ in Search

twitter_googleplusTwitter is now officially speaking out against Google’s new search features that give prominent placement to content from its own social network, Google+.

In a statement, Twitter complained that “people, publishers, news organizations and Twitter users” would suffer from not being more…

Yandex, Not Bing, Becomes Default Windows Phone Search Engine in Russia

YandexYandex has officially become the default search engine on Windows Phone-based handsets in Russia. Russia’s largest search engine has entered a partnership with both Microsoft and many major phone manufacturers including Nokia, Samsun and HTC. more…

Most Indian surfers search for mobile phones

computerSearch engines are invariably the first port of call, when one logs on to the World Wide Web. They are used for a variety of purposes, one of which is searching for the best deals available.

Web surfers in India search the most for mobile phones. more…

September 2011 Search Engine Market Share from comScore, Hitwise

Google’s U.S. search engine market share climbed back up above 65 percent in September, while Yahoo’s share declined after two months of growth, according to comScore. While comScore shows Google market share just above 65 percent, Hitwise shows them hovering above 66 percent with Bing, Yahoo, and Bing-powered search all down. more…

Google Narrows AdMob to Mobile Apps

admobIn the face of Google AdSense for Mobile and AdMob feature cross-over, Google has decided to make a clear break between the products. Google has announced that AdMob’s mobile web publisher features will be discontinued on September 30. more…