Yahoo wants to change your mind about its search engine. It wants you to know that it is better at helping you find things thanks to features like its SearchAssist auto-complete keywords (which has been around for a year) , safe searching filters, and Search Monkey add-ons . So it is launching a campaign with display ads like the one on the left for the Web and radio spots as well trying to paint Google’s search engine as an inferior product—a place where people go to get lost.
Of course, Yahoo’s market share numbers tell a different story. In the U.S., it’s share of query volume as measured by comScore declined about a point in August to 19.6 percent, while Google’s rose a point to 63 percent. And if you look at traffic to each search engine, In the U.S., Yahoo has been flat for a year (up 0.8 percent) with 76.1 million unique visitors in August, while Google is up 16.9 percent to 127.9 million uniques. (These numbers ...
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Iterend vs. Technorati vs. Google Blog Search (Blog Search Fight)From: feeds.feedburner.com
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more How Technology Can Help Aleviate Economic FearsFrom: feeds.feedburner.com
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Post Date: 2008-10-09 07:07:19
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