search engine marketing

Searching on a mobile phone means Google, although it doesn’t have the same lead that it has on computer searches.  In total, 13.5% of all mobile web page views are spent using search engines.

Google — 9.0%
Yahoo — 4.3%
Bing — 0.03%

(Source — Opera Software)

Google continues to dominate the landscape of search in the USA.
According to ComScore’s December ‘09 study, search engine market share in the USA is as follows:

Google - 65.7%
Yahoo - 17.3%
MSN - 10.3%
Ask - 3.7%
AOL - 2.6%

The interesting part of the search engine market share is that the combined share of Yahoo and Bing (MSN) is [...]

Real-time search is dramatically changing search results at Google.  If the soon-to-be implemented Caffeine program is Google on speed, then the rankings are going to be changing constantly on premium keyword terms.
Get Clickz’ publisher Bob Bentz was quoted in a January 12, 2010 article in Digital Media Buzz.

According to a study from Hitwise, search engine market share ranked by volume of searches breaks down as follows:

Google — 70.93%
Yahoo! — 16.58%
Bing — 8.91%
Ask — 2.54%
AOL — 0.28%

Bing continues to make its mark in search engine market share.  Its pending partnership with Yahoo will further boost its search volume in the future.  Google, however, [...]

If you have a new web site, a good way to get it “on the board” in terms of search is to submit to directories.  Now, this isn’t, of course, as valuable as it once was, but its a quick and easy way to get some inbound links.
Bob Bentz, publisher of the GetClickz blog, gives [...]

Internet advertising in 2008 showed a growth of 10.6% over 2007–not bad considering the state of the economy.  (Source — PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
Fall 2008 showed the drop on Wall Street and the widespread negativity in business.  This caused fourth quarter ad sales growth to be up just 2.6% over the 2007 fourth quarter.
Search engine marketing showed the [...]