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Search and rescue

Bing’s usage during the month of September dropped off 5% even with the ‘decision engine’s’ advertising success and some gradual growth during the summer. Bing’s market share, the obvious statistic of choice, declined from 9.48% to 8.96%. The leader, Google, increased their share from 70.24% to 71.08% in America. Yahoo Search experienced a 3% decline, [...]

October 9th, 2009 | Tags: bing, Facebook, facts and figures, Google, Real time search, search engine, Twitter, Yahoo | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment

Without a battle

Facebook mobile has reached a total of 65 million users according to the Facebook Blog. With such a massive audience, detached from their desktop, Facebook is in an enviable position to introduce Facebook Connect into a whole host of other mobile internet features. It is important to note the level of dedication it took for [...]

September 8th, 2009 | Tags: Google, Real time search, Social media statistics, Wordpress | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment

Check some more

Game engine advertising. Oh God yes. Television viewers or movie-goers may remember the Killzone 2 ‘Bullet’ trailer that told an interesting story of a bullet crossing a battle field. I thoroughly enjoyed this ad, being an avid gamer; but what I did not know was this ad was fully interactive. You can actually [...]

September 3rd, 2009 | Tags: Advertising, Blackberry, iPhone, Real time search, Social media statistics, Twitter, Twitter trends | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment

Whinging and hand-wringing

MySpace is nearing a deal to acquire iLike, the Facebook favourite which helps connect music-lovers by allowing them to share playlists, concert plans and recommends music based on those playlists and those of users friends. Boasting a user base of 50 million users, iLike will increase the stranglehold MySpace already has on the most popular [...]

August 18th, 2009 | Tags: Bit.ly, Facebook, iLike, MySpace, Open Source, Real time search, Social media strategies, Tr.im, YouTube | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment

Intern week one, almost complete

Pretty sensational last few days with a pile of interesting news items, including FriendFeed being acquired by Facebook and subsequently used to make Facebook’s search real time. 300 million users real time events to search through, though I hope their input is as relevant as the much smaller Twitter user base who actually seems to [...]

August 11th, 2009 | Tags: Advertising, FriendFeed, Google, Intern misadventures, Open Source, Real time search, Twitter | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment