comScore has released some new numbers for the global search market. The highlight of the findings is that the market draws over 100 billion searches per month.
To be more specific, over 113 billion searches were conducted in July. This is a whopping 41% increase from a year ago. Obviously, Google sites received the bulk of these searches.
Searches on Google sites represented 76.7 billion searches, and 67.5% market share globally. Yahoo sites came in 2nd with 8.9 billion searches (7.8% share), then Baidu with 8 billion searches (7% share).
comScore July Report
"Most of the top search properties worldwide experienced significant growth in search query volume versus last year, with Russian search engine Yandex growing at the fastest rate (94 percent) among the top ten," says comScore.
To me, one of the more interesting points of the data above is that Facebook cracked the top ten. It may not be surprising to everybody, considering that Facebook is rivaling Google these days in terms of unique users, but from the search standpoint, it is definitely worth noting.
Last month, Facebook launched its version of real-time search, by letting users search posts from "everybody". Users can use this feature to find posts about what's happening "right now," just as with Twitter Search. Facebook has a lot more users than Twitter, however, which would account for why we are seeing Facebook in the top ten before Twitter, despite Twitter's punctuality in that area of search.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Google Launches New Features for Sites
Google has introduced some new features to Google Sites, the company's web site creation and publishing app. The new features were made to make it easier for users to copy their site, and use more options to search and announce updates.
Google Sites now allows users to copy entire sites. You can do this by simply going to "Manage Site," then "General," and "Copy Site."
The "recent announcement" gadget received an upgrade, which gives users control over how much text is shown in the post summary. You can show full post content, and/or a thumbnail of the first photo in the post.
Users also now have more control over the search box. If you go to "Manage Site," "Site Layout," and "Configure Search," you can configure search across multiple site, so you can unify them.
"Businesses and schools using Google Apps can configure it to search across all sites in their domains, which is useful for an intranet site," says software engineer Russ Vrolyk. "External search providers can also be used such as a Custom Search Engine or a Google Search Appliance."
With Google Sites search boxes, users can search across the sites' content as well as attachments. Users can search across multiple sites, the entire domain, using a custom search engine, and/or using a Google Search Appliance.
Google Sites now allows users to copy entire sites. You can do this by simply going to "Manage Site," then "General," and "Copy Site."
The "recent announcement" gadget received an upgrade, which gives users control over how much text is shown in the post summary. You can show full post content, and/or a thumbnail of the first photo in the post.
Users also now have more control over the search box. If you go to "Manage Site," "Site Layout," and "Configure Search," you can configure search across multiple site, so you can unify them.
"Businesses and schools using Google Apps can configure it to search across all sites in their domains, which is useful for an intranet site," says software engineer Russ Vrolyk. "External search providers can also be used such as a Custom Search Engine or a Google Search Appliance."
With Google Sites search boxes, users can search across the sites' content as well as attachments. Users can search across multiple sites, the entire domain, using a custom search engine, and/or using a Google Search Appliance.
Is PageRank Affected by Google Links?
In the latest Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel upload from Matt Cutts, he talks about whether or not Google places value on its own links with regards to Pagerank. Cutts took on the following user question:
Question: Does Google value its own links for PR/Linkjuice? Google Bookmarks, Google Profiles, etc. Reason - Google links never appear in Webmaster Tools.
Cutts says he doesn't know about whether Google links never appear in Webmaster Tools, but in general, people hold Google to a very high standard. He gives the example that if Google delivers search results that aren't blocked by robots.txt, people find out about it and draw a lot of attention to it, whether that be by blogging or forums, or whatever.
"We try to be relatively careful," says Cutts.
With search results, Google tries to make sure they're properties aren't too spammable, and if they are worried that something might be potentially abused, they will often use a nofollow attribute.
Cutts says with Google Knol, most of the external links started out as nofollow, but then over time as they learned which Knol authors were more trustworthy, they lifted the nofollow on those Knol authors.
"Sometimes we do flow pagerank, but we try to be relatively careful because we're mindful of the people who do try to abuse it," he says.
Google has a lot of properties, and this might not answer everybody's questions on the subject, but I would bet that the trust factor mentioned with regards to Google Knol, could probably be applied to other products.
Question: Does Google value its own links for PR/Linkjuice? Google Bookmarks, Google Profiles, etc. Reason - Google links never appear in Webmaster Tools.
Cutts says he doesn't know about whether Google links never appear in Webmaster Tools, but in general, people hold Google to a very high standard. He gives the example that if Google delivers search results that aren't blocked by robots.txt, people find out about it and draw a lot of attention to it, whether that be by blogging or forums, or whatever.
"We try to be relatively careful," says Cutts.
With search results, Google tries to make sure they're properties aren't too spammable, and if they are worried that something might be potentially abused, they will often use a nofollow attribute.
Cutts says with Google Knol, most of the external links started out as nofollow, but then over time as they learned which Knol authors were more trustworthy, they lifted the nofollow on those Knol authors.
"Sometimes we do flow pagerank, but we try to be relatively careful because we're mindful of the people who do try to abuse it," he says.
Google has a lot of properties, and this might not answer everybody's questions on the subject, but I would bet that the trust factor mentioned with regards to Google Knol, could probably be applied to other products.
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