search – PPCGeeks.com https://www.ppcgeeks.com Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:37:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.ppcgeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ppcg_banner-150x78.png search – PPCGeeks.com https://www.ppcgeeks.com 32 32 [DISCUSSION] What is better: Bing, Yahoo, Google Search https://www.ppcgeeks.com/2011/03/02/discussion-what-is-better-bing-yahoo-google-search/ https://www.ppcgeeks.com/2011/03/02/discussion-what-is-better-bing-yahoo-google-search/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:36:27 +0000 http://www.ppcgeeks.com/?p=18529 Either way, it doesn't look like many Google users are bothered by any of this because each of the services are still being used. Let us know what you think after you see the statistics inside!]]>

Sources say Google is claiming that Microsoft is stealing their search abilities and have had little influence on people’s search habits. It seems while Bing is growing, Yahoo and Google are both down a few percent as you can see in the chart above. Either way, it doesn’t look like many Google users are bothered by any of this because each of the services are still being used.

In today’s published announcement, Bing.com has gone from 10.60% market share in December 2010 up to 12.81% market share in the month of January 2011. That’s a significant increase of 21% month-to-month. Do you think the Android Samsung devices had something to do with that? In the same time Yahoo search was down four points. Overall Bing-powered search (which operates Yahoo! and Bing) was up from 25.77% to 27.44%, a total increase of 6%. In this day and age does this shock you?

Android is huge here in the USA and Google has pumped money out to be a default search partner with Apple, WebOS and of course Android. Do you see people using Bing more than the default search? Keep in mind these stats are from all searches (including desktop).

The Bing search engine is not only being used more but has also recently received a higher success rate in webpage clicks. Basically what this means is that 81% of searches that took place on both Yahoo and Bing resulted in the user actually clicking through to a website completely. Google’s success rate was quite a lot lower at 65%. Why do you think this is the case? Are Android users searching more and not actually clicking through?

Does this make a huge difference to you PPCGeekers? Who does a better job? Do you see Google losing grips on a dear market that they worked hard to conquer? Let’s discuss it down below and see who or what wins. Please keep it clean ok?

Source: neowin.net

]]> https://www.ppcgeeks.com/2011/03/02/discussion-what-is-better-bing-yahoo-google-search/feed/ 23 Google Gives Voice To Google Maps For (Windows) Mobile https://www.ppcgeeks.com/2010/04/21/google-gives-voice-to-google-maps-for-windows-mobile/ https://www.ppcgeeks.com/2010/04/21/google-gives-voice-to-google-maps-for-windows-mobile/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:10:24 +0000 http://www.ppcgeeks.com/?p=4912 In the days before prominent instant messaging, there was this chat technology called IRC. In IRC, it was possible to be given voice by the operators of the channel. How does this relate to anything mobile news related? Google (the operator) has given voice to those who run Google Maps on Windows Mobile in the form of a new update. Dubbed ‘Search by voice’, it allows for searches by vocal instead of textual input. Simply open Google Maps, press the ‘call’ button your phone, and speak your search term. Search by voice works with places, addresses, specific businesses and types of businesses.

Updated to 4.1, the only other noticeable change is a redesigned settings page that includes the option of selecting the preferred language for Search by voice. To install the latest version of Google Maps for mobile 4.1 for Windows Mobile, go to m.google.com/maps in your phone’s web browser and download and install the .CAB.

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