December 2009 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
On 15th January, comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) announced the December 2009 search numbers of the U.S. search marketplace.
Google is still leading US search market with 65.7%. Ask is down slightly, so are AOL and Yahoo. Google and Bing are up.
| comScore Core Search Report* December 2009 vs. November 2009 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore qSearch |
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| Core Search Entity | Share of Searches (%) | ||
| Nov-09 | Dec-09 | Point Change Dec-09 vs. Nov-09 | |
| Total Core Search | 100.0% | 100.0% | N/A |
| Google Sites | 65.6% | 65.7% | 0.1 |
| Yahoo! Sites | 17.5% | 17.3% | -0.2 |
| Microsoft Sites | 10.3% | 10.7% | 0.4 |
| Ask Network | 3.8% | 3.7% | -0.1 |
| AOL LLC Network | 2.8% | 2.6% | -0.2 |
Google Nexus One Phone
Today Google has just announced (and released) the Nexus One Phone.
You can buy it for $529 (or $179 with a two year T-Mobile contract). Nexus One represents Google’s vision of what an Android phone should be. Mike Arrington has reviewed of the Nexus One phone.
“I’ve been using the Nexus One with TMobile since mid-December as my primary mobile phone. This is the best Android powered phone to date. It’s also the fastest and most elegant smartphone on the market today, solidly beating the iPhone in most ways.“
According to Business Insider :
“Google’s biggest, most important announcement today isn’t the Nexus One smartphone’s feature set, specifications, or which carrier networks it will work on. It’s Google’s business model that matters.
Specifically, it’s that Google — not your local phone store — is going to be the place you buy the phone from.”
By contrast ZDNet says that selling direct is no big deal, Amazon does it, Apple does it and so do others:
“Apple sells its own phones. Unlocked phones are also sold by Nokia and Palm. What’s the big deal?”
As the smartphone wars continue to heat up the Nexus One is entering a marketplace that is currently dominated by the iPhone 3GS with and gaining popularity of the Droid by Verizon Wireless.
Currently it is not available in India so we have to wait. 
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Seesmic Acquired Ping.fm
Yesterday Seesmic announced that it has acquired Ping.fm. This service has more than half a million active users who post daily from various devices just by sending an email, a text message or chat. A list of apps that support Ping.fm can be found here.
Seesmic says that Seesmic applications on Blackberry, Android, Web, Windows and OSX via Air will all have advanced Ping.fm integration “very shortly,” and will instantly support 50 social networks. Users will be able to update not only with the apps they are used to, but also with Ping.fm’s email, sms and chat gateways, the company says.
“Ping.fm is compatible with every single Internet device in the world, which why it has become so successful among thousands of users,” says Seesmic. “Try using chat to update Twitter, and you’ll find it direct and seamless as you can post updates from gtalk, aim or skype through Ping.fm. It’s so simple and amazing, and it’s always on.”
Caffeine – Google’s New Version of Google Search
Google has just unveiled a “secret project” of the next generation of Google Search. I don’t think it is a minor upgrade but a fully new search infrastructure of Google search.
This new architecture appears to include crawling, indexing, and ranking changes. This time Google is replacing these changes in existing infrastructure. This project is still under construct and it has a developer preview. Here you can get a preview of how the search results will change over the next few weeks and months. Right now this preview isn’t up for mobile version or an international version. Visitors have to search on Google.com to see the result.
Based on the blog post, Google’s goal for the new version of Google Search is to improve its indexing speed, accuracy, size, and comprehensiveness. Here’s what they wrote:
For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. The new infrastructure sits “under the hood” of Google’s search engine, which means that most users won’t notice a difference in search results. But web developers and power searchers might notice a few differences, so we’re opening up a web developer preview to collect feedback.
Undoubtedly, Google Caffeine is not only faster, but it seems more capable of producing real-time results.
Microsoft and Yahoo Announce Search Partnership
Yahoo and Microsoft announced a internet search partnership and advertising on Wednesday morning. Last year Microsoft proposed 7.5 billion to buy Yahoo.
Microsoft will provide the search technology on Yahoo’s popular websites. It is good for Microsoft after renamed its search engine Bing, which has got good compliments and reviews. It will very interesting to see how Bing deliever better search results over time.
“This agreement gives us the scale and resources to create the future of search,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement. “Success in search requires both innovation and scale. With our new Bing search platform, we’ve created breakthrough innovation and features. This agreement with Yahoo will provide the scale we need to deliver even more rapid advances in relevancy and usefulness.”
The New York Times has a good news.
The terms of the 10-year agreement call for Microsoft to license some of Yahoo’s search technologies, and Yahoo will initially receive a lucrative 88 percent of search-generated ad revenue from Yahoo sites.
“This is a significant opportunity for us,” Bartz said. “Microsoft is an industry innovator in search and it is a great opportunity for us to focus our investments in other areas critical to our future.”
New Twitter Homepage
Social tool Twitter has released new homepage on 28th July. In new the look Twitter is focusing on search.
BTY it is nice clean look.
Google Adds Search Options, Google Squared, Rich Snippets
Google is about to add more features to its already dominant Internet search engine. Google has announced of new search options to help user to find what user need faster than ever, including spreadsheets of search data and the Wonder Wheel.
The major addition is simply called Google Search Options, and it’s a powerful toolbar to fine tune your results. You can sort by video, forum and reviews, which picks out comments on a product, or by time, so you can find the latest blog posts on something.
Google’s new search tools will assemble the work into spreadsheet- like format. Unlike Google’s traditional search results, the spreadsheet experiment, calle “Google Squared”, doesnt simply show a set of web links related to a search request.
Remember the Google Wonder Wheel, the pretty little spider diagram showing you related search queries? It’s live, and will update in realtime on the page when you move from term to term. Test it out for yourself, just look for the “Show Options” label above your Google search results.
Other revisions coming to Google will include more details, or “snippets”, posted under Web links in the search results. And there will be new options that will enable users to specify parameters, such as product reviews.
The changes are expected to roll out in phases during the next few weeks.
Facebook Is Top 10 Internet Brands In Britain
Facebook was on top in 10 Internet brands in 
Britain with 13 percent of all UK internet time last month, according to Nielsen Online spokesperson. UK users spending one in every eight minutes on the site. The amount of time spent increased by 3.8 billion minutes in April 2009, compared with April 2008.
Windows Live email and instant messaging tools came in second with 9.2 per cent and Google came in third with 5.3 per cent in the list.
The top 10 most used web brands in the UK during April 2009, according to total minutes spent on the site:
1. Facebook – 6.2 billion minutes
2. Windows Live – 4.5 billion minutes
3. Google – 2.6 billion minutes
4. eBay – 2.0 billion minutes
5. Yahoo! – 1.7 billion minutes
6. AOL – 1.5 billion minutes
7. BBC – 1.1 billion minutes
8. YouTube – 898 million minutes
9. Microsoft – 733 million minutes
10. Apple – 719 million minutes
Facebook In Six Indian Languages
Now from today morning, Facebook comes in the six Indian languages. Today morning I login my Facebook account and it shows Hindi and other five indian languages options. I have choosed in Hindi language and below is the screenshot of my account.
Six Indian languages are Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam. It will help to connect with your Indian friends all over the world.
Google AJAX Search Results
As you may be aware, Google is testing AJAX search results and Google has confirm that. Due to Google AJAX search results, a major uproar amongst webmasters who were unable to track referrer information in their analytics package. Matt Cutts posted a video and explain a bit more about these changes.