Blogging Stats
Some interesting stats on the blogging phenonemon: 23,000 new blogs are created every day โ that’s about one every three seconds (source: Technorati) 11% of Internet users report visiting blogs written by others. Between 2% and 7% of adult Internet users in the United States keep their own blogs. Of those, only about 10% update […]
Free pass into password-protected content
Many sites that require registration or payment in order to access their premium content have realized that they can’t keep the search engine spiders (such as Googlebot and Yahoo Slurp) out of their password protected areas or they take a serious hit on their search engine traffic and visibility. Therefore, they let their search engine […]
Top sites by PageRank score
For a very long time I was one of the elite few who knew how to get a list of the top 1000 web pages on the Internet sorted in order of Google’s PageRank importance score. Since this top secret little trick no longer works, I feel I can share it with you all now. […]
28% of searchers account for 68% of searches
John Battelle shared some interesting search engine usage stats courtesy of Gian Fulgoni of comScore. According to John’s source at comScore, 28% of searchers account for 68% of searches. This comes close to following the 80/20 rule — a bit surprising, don’t you think? Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine expounds further on comScore findings, thanks to […]
Watch out Google, Yahoo! Here comes MSN Search!
Today Microsoft announced the launch of the beta of their new MSN Search, using their own technology that no longer relies on Yahoo! Search Technology. Formal launch of the new search service on MSN.com is slated for January. Although functionality is currently somewhat limited and its relevancy algorithm isn’t up to par with Google’s (in […]
Googleโs index hits 8 billion pages. Yes folks, size does matter.
On Wednesday, the day before Microsoft unveiled the beta of Microsoft Search, Google announced that their index was now over eight billion pages strong. Impeccable timing from the Googleplex. Just a couple days later, and Microsoft could have proudly touted its bigger web page index over Google’s. Still, Microsoft’s 5 billion documents is an impressive […]
MarketingProfs webcast on SEO
Well, I presented at another MarketingProfs webcast (webinar) today. This one was on Search Engine Optimization: Maximizing Your Natural Search Channel. Wow did we get deluged with questions at the end! Much more so than the one I did 2 months ago, on unlocking the power of Google as a research tool. I’ll try to […]
Google Scholar โ a new search engine for us eggheads
Google has just launched a new search engine called Google Scholar. It’s an engine specifically of scholarly content, such as articles in academic journals. It’s still in beta, so don’t be too hard on Google if it’s not perfect. Danny Sullivan has written an article in SearchDay about the new service. Good on ya, Google!
Google isnโt going to develop a web browser
In a recent blog entry I referred to The Register’s speculation about Google building a web browser to compete with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Apparently that isn’t going to happen any time soon. Chief executive Eric Schmidt has, however, ruled out developing a Google browser to compete with Microsoft’s dominant Internet Explorer.
