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

Which software do you use?

When it comes to Corporate and Business deals/operations, most of us would agree that a licensed software is a must.
It not only affects the performance and lowering the downtime, but also boosts confidence while dealing with overseas clients and meeting the expectations.Especially the Marketing personel has to face the Music if any doubts raising the authentic software and the permissions are concerned. After all marketing ( online or offline) shows you how responsible businessmen and further citizen you can be.

Rediff News has some more info:
Illegal and unlicensed software installations continue to be a problem and source of revenue loss for software companies worldwide.

In fact, 55 per cent of the executives interviewed estimated their firms' losses at greater than 10 per cent of the total revenue, according to a recent survey by KPMG, the audit, tax and advisory firm.

The picture is grim in India too, with 50 per cent of the software in use being pirated.

Overall, 87 per cent of the executives claimed a revenue loss due to unlicensed use.

What's more, 77 per cent of those surveyed agreed with the International Data Corporation estimate that 35 per cent of the installed software is unlicensed, leading to an estimated $34 billion in lost revenue to the industry.

The solution to S/W Piracy and pirated software is the "Cost" which most of the individuals cant afford in Non-Advanced countries. Software companies want to take out the revenues spent in development and earn profit, thats obvious; but the customer focus is lacking here.If the price-value relationship is re-considered to the requirements of small business owners, its a definite possibility that the menace can be eliminated/reduced to a larger extent.
Yes we are also forgetting about Copyrights and IPR ( Intellectual Property Rights) here!

Forthcoming Internet Problems in 2010

Predict the future of Internet?
Many people say its bright...
Some say its a bit dull...
How about a warning that it will be a infrastructure crisis ?
Dont believe me....

Here is a news from chinadaily.com,

Booming demand for Internet services combined with insufficient infrastructure investment could leave the Web vulnerable to brown outs within three years, a study released Tuesday predicted.
Nemertes Research said Internet providers need to invest from $42 billion to $55 billion -- or 60% to 70% more than current plans call for -- to stave off interruptions to the digital economy that could happen if the Net bogs down. "The next Google, YouTube, or Amazon might not arise" if the situation isn't fixed, Nemertes said.
The problem, the group said, is that bandwidth usage is outpacing infrastructure build outs. While core fiber and switching/routing technology "will scale nicely," Internet access resources could soon be overwhelmed in three to five years, Nemertes said.

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India China IT competition Status

Infosys Chief Mentor N R Narayana Murthy said on Monday that though India was 20 years ahead of China in the Information Technology (IT) sector, Beijing was fast catching up with India in the sector by focussing more on education.

Addressing the induction ceremony of the company's InStep Programme in which over 125 candidates were selected among the 12,000 global aspirants here, Murthy said China was growing well in the IT sector giving better focus on education programmes which were fit for other other nations to emulate.

Though China had done extremely well in the manufacturing sector and created over 130 to 140 million jobs, it lagged India in software sector. However, China had extraordinary quality to overcome the gap and surge ahead in this sector also, Murthy replied to an internee from Beijing.

Complete story here