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

Top Mobile Search Keywords : 2008 data

Yahoo! Top Mobile Searches 2008

1. MySpace
2. Facebook
3. Craigslist
4. Movies
5. Weather
6. Olympics
7. The Dark Knight
8. Kim Kardashian
9. eBay
10. AIG

AOL Mobile Search Top Mobile Searches 2008
1. MySpace
2. AIM
3. iPhone
4. MocoSpace
5. Facebook
6. Craigslist
7. Weather
8. Free Ringtones
9. MapQuest
10. Match.com

Google Mobile Top Mobile Searches 2008 – Google India

1. orkut
2. yahoo
3. waptrick
4. gmail
5. games
6. katrina kaif
7. rediffmail
8. yahoomail
9. namitha
10. google

The Yahoo! and AOL lists have the following four terms in common:
1. craigslist
2. facebook
3. myspace
4. weather

Source : Brysonmeunier.com

AOL storms into Social Marketing Space with Bebo buy

AOL sent to its competitors on Mar. 13 after it forked over $850 million for California online social network Bebo, the third-largest such site in the U.S. behind Facebook and MySpace.
The acquisition gives AOL's parent company, Time Warner (TWX), access to Bebo's predominantly teen audience, as well as providing a platform to compete against the other social networks in the battle for online advertising revenue.
Web 2.0 offerings such as social networks are growing faster than their better-established online counterparts.
Launched three years ago, Bebo now boast 40 million users worldwide. Its growth is buoyed by its popularity with pre-teens and young teenagers, who have flocked to the site as older Internet users have turned to MySpace and Facebook. According to Nielsen Online, unique visits to Bebo in January topped 7.1 million, a 60% increase from the same period last year.

Read the full story at BusinessWeek

Now AOL is also .IN

Now AOL is also .IN (AOL.in) America Online,internet wing of media giant Time Warner which is world second major online traffic driver,dont want to waste time in captalizing on growth factors with worlds biggest democracy and probably the most promising country India. AOL's newly launched Web portal is now helping in building a brand across the population and for hoping to give a boost to AOL's products and services. Wednesday, Ron Grant, President & COO of AOL, inaugurated the India-specific website from Banglore (India). Services offered are AOL Messenger, free e-mail,News,Cricket,Bollywood,Hollywood,International Music and ringtones.

Whats the good news for SEO?
Well nothing in direct, but keep your fingers crossed. A lot more to do with online advertisements via browsers, mobiles, podcasting, affiliate marketing, viral marketing ........


Welcome to India AOL !!