A study by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project found that 63 percent of adults in the United States had access to broadband at home, an increase of 15 percent in the last year. This follows a 17 percent increase in the previous year and 12 percent two years ago. The study [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Home Broadband Adoption Continues to Increase in U.S.
Friday, June 19th, 2009May U.S. Search Share Results
Friday, June 19th, 2009Nielsen Online has released its rankings of U.S. search share for May (PDF). Overall search increased 20.3 percent year over year to 9.4 billion searches. Google had year over year increase of 28.2 percent and received 63.2 percent of searches. Yahoo had a year over year increase of 22.3 percent and received 17.2 percent of [...]
WordPress 2.8 Released
Thursday, June 11th, 2009The finalized version of WordPress 2.8 was released today. The changes made include better widgets, a theme browser/installer, performance upgrades, and over 790 bug fixes. The widget admin interface has been changed to allow for making immediate edits to widgets, having multiple copies of widgets, and the ability to save settings for inactive widgets. A [...]
Bing Launch Increases Microsoft’s Search Activity
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009Comscore today released preliminary data that shows that Microsoft’s search activity in the United Sates has increased following the release of Bing. From June 2 to June 6 Microsoft’s share of search was 11.1 percent up 2 percentage points from May 26 to May 30, according to Comscore. During the same periods the amount the [...]
Online Advertising Dropped 5 Percent in First Quarter
Monday, June 8th, 2009Online advertising revenue was 5.5 Billion U.S. dollars in the first quarter, a decrease of 5 percent over the same period last year, according to a report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. This is the first time since 2002 that there has been a year over year decrease in revenue. First quarter revenue [...]
Developer Preview of Google’s Chrome Released for Mac and Linux
Friday, June 5th, 2009Google has released the first version of their web browser Chrome for Mac and Linux, plans these were announced last September when Google introduced the Windows version of Chrome. The version released is “developer preview,” Google’s destination for releases that are least stable and designed for testing new features. The version released is missing many [...]
Microsoft Begins U.S. Television Campaign for Bing
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009Microsoft will begin a U.S. television campaign this evening to promote Bing, which was also officially launched today. The first ad will promote that users currently experience “search overload,” getting too much information and not the answers they need. Several weeks later a second set of ads will begin running which will dramatize “what it [...]
Google Shares Local Search Data With Listed Businesses
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Google has announced that businesses will be able to see data on how users are interacting the listing for their location(s) in Google Maps and Google Search. The data includes how many times listing in appeared in a Google Search or Google Maps Search, how many times users interacted with the listing, what queries lead [...]
Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine is Now Available
Monday, June 1st, 2009Microsoft’s updated and renamed search engine Bing, formerly Live Search, is now accessible to the public at http://www.bing.com/. Microsoft has also begun to redirect live.com and searches from MSN to Bing. In addition to the more visible changes, which you can find out more about at http://www.discoverbing.com/, Microsoft has made changes behind the scenes. For [...]
