You Suck – A Memo to Microsoft adCenter

Dear Microsoft. While I value a wider selection brought on by competition, ever since you launched adCenter, your back-end has been plagued with troubles. I find it alarming that even after all this time, some basic fundamental usability issues are still not addressed...

Google Search Share Drops for 3rd Month in a Row

Earlier today Nielsen Online (pdf) released the latest search share rankings. Figures are pretty much what one would expect, Google far in the lead followed by Yahoo and MSN, but this past month Google has taken another small hit. April and May of 2009 each saw Google...

Finally Bing Will Be The Sole Brand – Updated

I am at SMX Advanced in Seattle this week and I was fortunate to have a one-on-one lunch with Rajesh Srivastava, the Group Program Manager for Portal Search Experience. After complimenting him and his team for finally pulling off what looks like a search engine that...

Google Approaches 73% Market Share

According to the latest figures over at Hitwise, Google’s market share is inching closer to the 73% mark, that’s up 0.35% since last month, and up nearly 5% compared to April of 2008. When compared to April of 2008 Yahoo is down considerably, from 20.29% to...

August Search Marketshare

The latest search market share figures are in at Nielsen, ComScore, and HitWise, and, for the most part, Google continues to rise. Depending on which provider you prefer, Google saw yet another increase in market share in August as did Yahoo. MSN has dropped according...