Microsoft eclipses Yahoo in US search for 1st time January 11, 2012 6:24 PM ET By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Microsoft Corp. has finally reached a long sought and expensive goal — its Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google in the Internet’s most lucrative market. Bing and Microsoft’s other websites fielded [...]

comScore Releases February 2011 U.S. Search Engine Rankings RESTON, VA, March 11, 2011 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in February with 65.4 percent of searches conducted. U.S. Explicit [...]

There is a Joke in Egypt about past leaders losing their Presidency and Mubarak today. Nasser, Sadat, Mubarak meet in the heavens and Nasser says “I resigned the Presidency of Egypt because of the Six Day War.” Sadat says “I lost the Presidency because I was assassinated.” They both ask Mubarak how he lost the [...]

Yellow Pages Ban Proposed In San Francisco The Huffington Post Joanna Zelman 02/ 8/11 05:51 PM The Yellow Pages phone book. It’s been used as packaging material, a dangerous booster seat, fire kindling, and perhaps a box for illicit items if holed-out. But in an increasingly digital age, just how often is the phone book [...]

What the ‘Like’ button means for web traffic By Jolie O’Dell, Mashable September 30, 2010 10:06 a.m. EDT | Filed under: Web Since the button launched, many publishers are reporting large increases in traffic specifically due to this kind of social plugin. Facebook like button is now present on roughly 2 million sites around the [...]

Some quitting Facebook as privacy concerns escalate By John D. Sutter, CNN May 13, 2010 1:56 p.m. EDT (CNN) — Concerns over Facebook’s new privacy policy and the online social network’s recent efforts to spread its information across the Web have led some of the site’s faithful to delete their accounts — or at least [...]

SciTechBlog May 4, 2010 Internet Explorer losing grip on browser market Many people complain about Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. There have even been campaigns to kill old versions of the Web browser. But despite the haters, IE has always remained way on top. In June 2002, 95 percent of computers accessed the Internet through the product, [...]

Why Advertising is Failing on the Internet by Eric Clemons, March 2009 Advertising will fail for three reasons: There are three problems with advertising in any form, whether broadcast or online: Consumers do not trust advertising. Dan Ariely has demonstrated that messages attributed to a commercial source have much lower credibility and much lower impact [...]

SUNDAY, JAN 17, 2010 09:00 EST Smaller Startups to Fuel M&A Fire in Mobile Ads This Year BY COLIN GIBBS The mobile ad space continued to heat up last week with Amobee’s acquisition of RingRing Media, a 2-year-old London-based startup, for an undisclosed sum. The move surely isn’t anywhere near the magnitude of Google’s $750 [...]

Facebook, Twitter users beware: Crooks are a mouse click away By Stephanie Chen CNN (CNN) — If you’re on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking site, you could be the next victim. That’s because more cyberthieves are targeting increasingly popular social networking sites that provide a gold mine of personal information, according to the [...]