Top Ten Search Properties

Comscore announced its latest research on the Top search Engine shares in various countries and regions.

Useful information for search marketers who want to capitalize on brand building and also online promotion via SEO and SEM.

Showing the presence of internet people , Baidu China takes a lead and microsoft properties are lacking behind. Social media sites like MySpace and Facebook done seem to appear at the top, while friendster makes its presence felt. B2B is still a hot cake and its represented by Alibaba.

In country specific users, China is approximately four times creating unique searches opportunities while Japan ranks second followed by India. Interestingly there are more searches per searcher (102.6) for Japan than China (75.3).

Five of the Top Ten Search Properties are Region-based Engines

Although Google Sites and Yahoo! Sites captured the majority of the search share in the region, five of the top ten search properties are local country entities, including China's Baidu.com (16.7 percent) and Korea's NHN Corporation (5.3 percent), which owns search engine Naver.com. Chinese properties Alibaba.com Corporation, Tencent Inc., and Sohu.com Inc., which host Internet-search functionality although they are not strictly search engines, rounded out the list of key local players.


China Accounted for the Most Searches among Asia-Pacific Countries
More than 82 million Chinese Internet users conducted 6.2 billion total searches in April, an average of 75 searches per searcher. Interestingly, Japan’s 60 million Internet searchers conducted nearly the same number of searches (6.1 billion) as the 82 million Chinese searchers, a result of the heavier search volume per person in Japan (102.6 searches per searcher). Korea (104 searches per searcher) and Singapore (101 searches per searcher) also exhibited notably heavy search volume per person.


More: Comscore Press Release

New Features in Gmail

Your favorite Gmail will get better and better each day.
Google Labs is adding more features to make the typing and managing of emails more interesting. Making the chatting experience more fun working with stars and pictures will definately improve the user interaction and have more people stay and do what "Google" wanted them to do.
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3 Gmail Labs features that will spice up your inbox
Monday, June 16, 2008 12:09 PM
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing Manager

Last week we launched Gmail Labs, a way for you to test out experimental Gmail features before they're ready for prime time. This week, we want to show you what the most popular Labs features can do for your inbox. To use any Gmail Labs feature* visit the Labs tab under Settings, and select "Enable" next to each one you want to turn on. When you're finished picking features, click "Save changes" to apply the new settings. Here's a mini guide to the most popular ones:

Superstars: Adds new star designs to better differentiate important email.



After enabling Superstars, simply click on the star icon repeatedly to rotate through new star options. If you have shortcuts enabled, hitting the "s" key consecutively will do the same. There are more star designs then the ones set as default -- to select different variations, click Settings and look for the Superstars section under the General tab. Drag the icons listed as "not in use" to "in use" to make changes to your star lineup. Once enabled, you can use Superstars to help prioritize and manage emails. For example, you can add a "!" icon star on emails that have critical or timely information, such as bank information, or you can add a "✓" icon star to emails associated with a task you've completed, such as paying a bill online.

Pictures in chat: Adds your friends' photos to the chat window.



Make Gmail chat a little more personal. Now you can view a picture of your friends when you chat with them. (Tip: If your friend doesn't have a picture, you can suggest one by clicking on the placeholder picture in Contacts under your friend's name).

Quick Links: Bookmarks common Gmail views.



Quick Links allows you to create a shortcut to any bookmarkable URL in Gmail. Just click "Add Quick Link" to save a link to the page you are currently viewing. You can then jump to that page any time with one click. For example, you can add a link to a draft email where you keep your to do list, or an email with your frequent flyer information. You can also save a common Gmail search by conducting the search (let's say for "is:unread" -- which brings up all your unread mail) and then clicking "Add Quick Link."

If you have suggestions for ways we can improve any of the Labs features, or want to suggest a new one, please visit our Labs discussion forum. The engineers who built Gmail Labs features keep an eye on discussions, and your feedback will help them make the features great.

*Gmail Labs is currently only available in US and UK English and to Google Apps users whose administrators have opted in to new features from the control panel.

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Google Trends : New User Controls enabled

Whats the way to learn about the trends and hot buzz?
How do you know where to get any idea about where people have interest and what are they searching for?

You can get a fair idea ( cannot say its fully accurate, but can get something) at Google Trends.
Todays Hot trends are showing everything about Orissa JEE when customized for India

New addition is now you can - Export data to CSV.

Here is one more news titled "Google lets users measure the power of words " about Google Trends.


Today's Hot Trends (India)
1. orissa jee results
2. www.jeeorissa.com
3. jeeorissa
4. bput
5. ojee
6. www.orissajee.com
7. www.bput.org
8. bput.org
9. orissajeeresult
10. bput orissa

Have a look:


SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Number-crunchers can rejoice as Google Inc offers deeper access to the underlying figures for users' Web searches, giving some insight into trends based on the relative popularity of various words.

The Internet search leader is expanding its existing Google Trends service to allow users to see underlying numerical data on the popularity of any particular search in Google's vast database of search terms, relative to others.

Google Trends was begun two years ago as an entertaining but limited way to indicate what the world is thinking about over time, at least in terms of Web searches.

Now Google is giving users the ability to search across terms in its database, instantly chart how they compare to other search terms, then export the underlying numerical data into a common spreadsheet format to compare with other data.

Google Trends (http://trends.google.com/) lets users compare demand for various search terms and see how popularity differs across geographic regions, cities or languages.

Source: Reuters