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Google continues to increase its share of the U.S. internet search market, edging beyond Yahoo and Microsoft, according to analysis firm ComScore Networks’ latest monthly numbers, CNETwrites. From March to April this year, among home, work and university Internet users, the search engine giant’s market share increased from 42.7 percent to 43.1 percent - up from 36.5 percent in April of 2005.
Yahoo came in second place, with a steady market share at 28 percent between March and April, down 2.7 percent from 2005. Microsoft’s MSN’s number of search queries also continued to fall, ending with a market share at 12.9 percent in April of 2006 - down from 16.1 percent in April last year. Taking third place, Time Warner’s AOL search dropped from 9 percent in April 2005 to 6.9 percent this year, while InterActiveCorp Search & Media’s rebranded Ask.com network fell to 5.8 percent from 6.1 percent for the same period last year.
Social networking site MySpace.com appeared for the first time among the rankings, taking sixth place in April. ComScore reported it might be worth it to consider the smaller player “due to the site’s remarkable popularity.”
By the end of 2008, revenue growth in the radio industry is expected to have fallen 7%, the second year of negative growth for the medium, according to estimates in a report from from BIA Advisory Services, writes MarketingCharts.
BIA estimates that…
Next in the long list of companies cutting jobs comes Tribune Co., which is slicing positions at The Chicago Tribune.
About 12 employees at the Trib were given the rest of the week to clean out their desks; more cuts…
Target is one of the first brands to create an iPhone application. The Target “gift globe” allows iPhone users to shake their phones to launch a snow-fall effect.
When the snow clears, a gift idea from Target is revealed. Users…
NBCU is launching its latest round of layoffs, with up to 500 jobs, or 3% of its work force, expected to be cut.
NBC News bureaus in Dallas and Los Angeles will be affected, writes TV Newser. L.A. correspondent John Larson,…
A Specific Media study finds the presence of display advertising significantly affects click-through and search style across both paid and organic searches.
In the “travel and tourism” category, display advertising engendered a 274% lift on both paid and organic search.…
Today’s Wall Street Journal is running a cover wrap for Dell. The ad covers a third of the front page and all of the back.
Though the New York Post and the Daily News commonly use cover wraps, the move…
