Quantcast

Down And Out With Yahoo Search

In a discovery that will surprise no one, Yahoo is continuing to lose share in the search marketing arena to Google and Bing:

It’s heading in the wrong direction — toward zero. Yahoo represented 18% of the U.S. search market in October, according to comScore — an all-time low. Meanwhile, Google reached an all-time high at [...]

Google Places Shows How Quickly Your SEO Can Be Undone

Google launched a new product called Google Places last week, a mini-profile page for local business listings that aggregates  address, phone number, site URL, maps, directions, photos and reviews all on one page. The problem is that Google quietly began indexing these aggregator pages. The risk is that, because this content resides within [...]

Bartz Tells Yahoos To Shut Their Ya-Yas

In a leaked company-wide memo, Bartz extolled employees to stop talking about Yahoo’s widely-criticized search deal with Microsoft.

Yahoo Looks Itself Up On Bing; Discovers It’s Still A Search Engine

Remember when Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz declared in an inspired moment of tech Jedi mind-trickery that Yahoo was never really a search company? Well, apparently not everyone in Sunnydale got the memo:

“I fully anticipate that our front-end experience will evolve differently from Bing,” said Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice president of Yahoo labs and [...]

The Improbable Rise of Bing Shopping

It’s amazing what a little cashback will do, ain’t it?

That must be the refrain around the halls of Redmond these days,  as Bing Shopping has experienced a stratospheric 169% increase in traffic over the past two months.

How much of this may be due to Bing’s double-cashback program is unknown. What is known is that this [...]