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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Search Engine Market Share for April '06

ComScore Networks reports that Google continues to lead market share for US search volume in April with 50%, combined with the search volume of AOL (Google supplies search results for AOL). This is a significant increase of market share compared with April of last year.

Yahoo remained No. 2 with a 28% share, however, this is down 2.7% from last April.

MSN Search had market share of 12.9%, down 3.2% from last April.

Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) rounds out the top 4 search engines with a market share of 5.8%, also down from last April by 0.3%

Category: Search Engine Marketing and Optimization

posted by Symetri at 5/25/2006 09:18:00 AM


Tuesday, May 23, 2006

AdSense Video Ads Out of Rich Media Beta Test

AdWords advertisers will be able to display video ads across the AdSense content network. The video ads, in a click-to-play video format so not to be too obtrustive to the user experience, will be available as both site targeted ads as well as on a keyword basis. However, it does not seem to be an ad format that publishers will be able to opt-out of. Get more info on the Adwords Blog.


Category: Search Engine Marketing and Optimization

posted by Symetri at 5/23/2006 10:33:00 AM