Showing posts with label ask. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ask. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Jan 2010 data for Top 10 US Search Providers

Latest data about who is searching what and who is searching where is out....
Checkout the table below for the Top search providers ( Jan 2010) and its the US 
geography considered.

Google has lost one percentage in search compared to the last while Bing is 
gaining.
With this data now innovative search marketers and online marketing companies
can now target the top searched internet properties and design a killer marketing strategy accordingly.

Top 10 Search Providers for January 2010, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)
Rank Provider Searches (000) Share of Searches

All Search 10,272,099 100.0%
1 Google Search 6,805,424 66.3%
2 Yahoo! Search 1,488,476 14.5%
3 MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search 1,116,546 10.9%
4 AOL Search 251,762 2.5%
5 Ask.com Search 194,161 1.9%
6 My Web Search 112,356 1.1%
7 Comcast Search 59,608 0.6%
8 Yellow Pages Search 35,101 0.3%
9 NexTag Search 34,736 0.3%
10 BizRate Search 20,123 0.2%
Source: The Nielsen Company

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Search Engine : All Year Trends : Analysed : Indian Perspective

Whats going on in the search industry recently?
Well a lot, but to get a bird's eye view here are some of the graphs and illustrations via Google Trends ( strange thing is that it does not include Google.com itself, but lets move forward)

Graph showing Top Data fetching search engines and properties:


Regions ruling the search world are United States, India and China respectively for the highest numbers of internet population and IT revolutions.

One time high competing rivals Yahoo! and MSN are keeping a distant parallel lines when it comes to unique visitors, Yahoo! holding the upper limit.

Interesting thing is Facebook ( top social media / networking site) shows better performance than ask.com, a major search engine.
Confirming the fact that more and more users are being attracted on social networking sites, due to the web2.0 concepts, more inter-activeness and contact / concept sharing

Top keywords searched include ever green directory Craigslist, emails solution providers, a latest buzz word in US Politics "Sarah Palin" and financial terms like Bank america.



Indian Search Scene :

Now taking the Indian Context (having second largest population on the planet) of all the google trends goin on for the year.

The graph above shows Yahoo! ( including the search properties i.e. sub sites and partner sites) dominate the Indian Online Market. MSN shows its presence while Ask is nowhere ...

Facebook is having some upward movements in terms of growing users online via social media networking.
Checking regionwise :
Maharashtra, Delhi and Karnataka tops the list of states while the next surprise here in andaman and Nicobar islands ... is it a wrong data ? nothing can be proved but lets take it for the sake of information.

Other visited sites mostly include email service providers ( rediff, yahoo) job sites ( monsterindia, naukri, timesjobs) and railway ( irctc). Ibibo makes a surprise entry here along with hdfc bank, while orkut or youtube seem missing in the top 10.

Top keywords searched within India this year:


BSNL tops the list along with the pay commission ( mostly by central government employees). Indian railways also being searched a lot considering the forthcoming festive season online railway booking.

Monday, August 11, 2008

How to earn from a blog or website?

Want to earn online via your website or blog?

Beside many link advertising and banner advertising options , one reliable solution is Google Adsense.
No doubt other online marketing solutions from Search Engines like Yahoo Search Marketing, MSN Adcenter and Ask Sponsored search are effective, the market share of these companies is one issue where most of the online brand building and marketing money is flowing for a deep and volummetic market reach with effective ROI ( Return on Investment)
Yes the same one which I'm using on my blog here.
Whats the funda?

Its just allowing some space to display ads on your site or blog to Google by placing some script/code.
Once approved, your site starts showing ads "relevant" to the page content, relevance will get more accurate as page gets older and the content gets reliable via more text, links and headers. The ads can be text, images and/or videos too.
You can earn via :
1. Page impressions ( number of times your page gets downloaded or viewed) : You get per thousand earnings via PPM score.
2. PPC ( Pay-Per-Click) : You earn if any of the visitor clicks on any ad
3. Referals ( Now they are being / been taken out)

But first you need to have an adsense account. Get it now, its FREE

Whats new with Google Adsense ?

Google has recently rolled out its "New Ad Management" feature in adsense console.
Those who already have their adsense logins, must have observed some new additions in terms of "code storing" details such as ad size, colors and channel settings etc. The code details are being saved on Google's servers and not elsewhere, so the appeared advantage is the webmaster can make changes to the adsense units from within the account itself.

Now, How do I create an AdSense unit?

To create a new AdSense unit that you can manage within your account, follow the steps below. (
1. Sign in to your account at http://www.google.com/adsense.
2. Under the AdSense Setup tab, choose the Get Ads link.
3. Select AdSense for content as the product. The new AdSense units are only available for AdSense for content at this time.
4. Choose your ad type, format, colors, and channels just as you have in the past.
5. Give your AdSense unit a name that you can remember. We recommend including the site(s), page(s), or location(s) that the AdSense unit will be placed on, so you can easily identify it in the future should you wish to make updates.
6. Click Submit and Get Code.
7. Copy and paste the newly generated code onto your site.

You are done.
So start earning money NOW !!!

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Google Internet Share March 2008

Google Inc. (GOOG) received 67% of all U.S. Internet searches during the four weeks ended March 29, according to information service Hitwise.

Google received 64% of all U.S. Internet searches in the same period a year earlier.

Yahoo Inc.'s (YHOO) search engine received 20% of U.S. Web searches in the more recent period, while Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) MSN Search drew 7% and Ask.com 4%.

The remaining 46 search engines in Hitwise's search engine analysis tool accounted for about 2% of searches in the U.S.

Source : CNN Money