Google, Yahoo and MSN Market Share

Danny Sullivan recently posted the latest search engine market share stats in the SearchEngineWatch Blog . The order of the big three, has without much surprise, remained the same with Google the clear leader followed by Yahoo, then MSN. Google Yahoo MSN Google Since...

No More Answers

After 4 years of Q and A Google Answers is being retired and as of late this week they will no longer be accepting new questions. Google Answers was first introduced back in 2002 by a small 4 person team based on a rough idea by Larry Page. Within 4 months of...

Battelle’s Experience with Google Checkout

John Battelle wrote an excellent article describing his experience with Google Checkout. I highly recommend the read if you are considering using Google Checkout for shopping this holiday season or as a merchant. Here is a snippet: It seems Google is obviating the...

Google’s Top Adult Rankings Get Filtered

Part of my job of keeping up on the latest SEO news and tactics is to venture where I think no self-respecting webmaster should go… the black hat SEO news world. Fortunately, these occasional glimpses of the dark side are very interesting. For example, one of...

Google Shares break $500

For the first time Google shares have broken the $500 mark and Wednesday morning saw an opening at $510.78. These figures give 8 year old Google a market value of approximately $154 billion. When they priced its IPO back in August 2004, the value per share was $85 and...