Published by rwatstein December 29th, 2007
in search, Google, Yahoo, AOL and Ask.
Looks like Google is out to dominate the search engine battle this year. It has consistently topped search engine rankings from various web analytics reports for the past couple of months, and in what seems to be the final ranking for this year, it once again shown the search engine industry its supremacy in terms of search usage. Based on the latest comScore report, Google again lead the pack with 58.6% (up by 0.2%) of all the core searches for November. Following Google is Yahoo with 22.4% (down by 0.4%) and Microsoft which is steady at 9.8%. Ask Network and Time Warner’s AOL got 4.6% and 4.5% respectively. Time Warner is the biggest gainer of all the search engines with a 0.3% increased in search ranking as compare to October.
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Published by rwatstein November 3rd, 2007
in search and AOL.
AOL, Time Warner Inc.’s Internet unit, is introducing Web sites in the Hindi and Tamil languages to target Indian users, part of a push to expand in 30 new countries by the end of 2008. AOL seeks to tap Internet users in India by offering news, movie and astrology sections, the Dulles, Virginia-based company said Tuesday. AOL also is introducing its Truveo video search engine in eight countries. They include Taiwan, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Spain and the United Kingdom.
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Published by rwatstein September 15th, 2007
in social sites and AOL.
AOL is once again revamping its Netscape.com Web portal, dropping a year-old ‘’social news” component in which visitors submitted and voted on news stories and blog entries to determine how they’re ranked on the site. AOL, the Internet services unit of Time Warner Inc., said it isn’t giving up on social news completely and will instead send interested visitors to a separate, yet-to-be-determined Web address.
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