Tag Archives: Search Engines

Hitwise overall search terms 12/08/09 to 12/09/09

Hitwise UK have released the last four weeks search terms, here they are – 1.facebook 3.49% 2.youtube 1.02% 3.ebay 0.93% 4. facebook login 0.72% 5. bebo 0.42% 6. ebay uk 0.32% 7. you tube 0.26% 8. argos 0.22% 9. bbc 0.22% 10. amazon 0.22% The result aren’t so surprising but has made wonder how the [...]

Ask.co.uk bring back Ask Jeeves – go askjeeves

Do you remember 3 years a certain Internet based butler was put into retirement, well Ask have brought back the very helpful butler back just for the UK. Ask Jeeves will run a large tv based campagines over the next few weeks designed by Hanft, Raboy and Partners – “Why do onions make you cry?” [...]

Search Engines stats in the UK last 6 months

After reviewing all sorts of internet stats I thought I would assess search engines market share and stats used in the UK over the last six months. Google 90.21 Yahoo! 4.21 AOL 1.74 MSN 1.34 Windows Live 1.33 Ask Jeeves 1.03 AltaVista 0.08 Source: StatCounter Global Stats As you would expect Google has the majority [...]

Yahoo! mail get a 3rd of all Yahoo! traffic

Thanks to the good folk at Hitwise they released figures about Yahoo! and their traffic. Now as an internet geek and SEO its interesting to see where their traffic goes to, as Yahoo is basically a portal to their services and external services. Here are the top 3 – 1. Yahoo! Mail 36.71% 2. Yahoo! [...]

Facebook the most searched for brand in the UK

Facebook being the most searched brand in the UK? Yeah no surprise I hear you say. Hitwise (our favourite webstats company) released their figures yesterday and here are the figures for the last quarters UK most searched for brands in UK 2008. 1. Facebook (2.39%) 2. YouTube (1.57%) 3. eBay (1.25%) 4. Bebo (0.96%) 5. [...]

Google putting more weight to brands??

Matt Cutt’s from Google Web team tries to clear up an important question which most SEO’s always blog about and question – Do Google put weight on brands in their SERP’s? Watch Matt try to clear this up via the Google official Webmaster help channel from their very own YouTube – I agree with OM [...]

Well done G

My fellow SEO G has had almost instant success with Squidoo, he is an expert in the finance industry, especially the mortgage industry. His latest post http://www.squidoo.com/standardvariablerate helps break down the nightmare that is SVR – standard variable rate. Check his expert blog @ http://mortgage.ghead.co.uk Google SERP’s http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=should+i+go+onto+the+standard+variable+rate&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=&sa=2 Follow G through Twitter @grahamhead Danny Denhard [...]

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