Google Suggest, the feature in Google search that suggests search queries based on what has been typed into the search box, now displays localized search results in the US. The results will be localized by region, Country specific localization was introduced last year.
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Google Localizes Google Suggest in the US
Friday, April 16th, 2010Google Increases Search Query Data in Webmaster Tools
Friday, April 16th, 2010Google has significantly increased the amount and depth of the data they provide for in the Top Search Queries feature in their Webmaster Tools. The data was previously limited to the top 100 queries, it now displays a much larger sampling of queries. The data previously only provided the percentage of impressions and clicks that [...]
Google Begins Factoring Site Speed into Rankings
Friday, April 9th, 2010Google today announced that several weeks ago they began factor the speed that a website responds to web requests into search rankings. Site speed is not currently a significant factor with “fewer than 1% of search queries are affected by the site speed signal” according to Google. Site speed is also only currently factored in [...]
Bing Gains US Market Share In February
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010According to Nielsen’s US search share data for February, Microsoft’s Bing search engine gained 1.6 point of search share during the month. Bing gained a point of market share in the previous and their market share reached 12.5 percent this month. Google’s share was 65.2 percent, 1.1 points of search share less than the previous [...]
Bing Gains Point of US Search Share in January
Friday, February 19th, 2010According to Nielsen’s US search share data for January Microsoft’s Bing search engine gained a point of search share in January, increasing its share to 10.9 percent. Google’s share was 66.3 percent, a point of search share less than the previous month. Yahoo’s share was 14.5 percent, an increase of a tenth of point over [...]
Yahoo and Microsoft Receive Regulatory Clearance for Search Pact
Thursday, February 18th, 2010Yahoo and Microsoft announced today that they had received regulatory clearance from US and European regulators. Under the pact Microsoft’s Bing search engine will power Yahoo Search and Microsoft’s AdCenter search advertising service will provide search ads to Yahoo Search. The companies had announced the pact in late July and reached a finalized agreement in [...]
Google Increased US Search Share In December
Thursday, January 14th, 2010According to Nielsen’s December data Google share of US searches was 67.3 percent, an increase of 1.9 percent from the previous month. Yahoo’s share dropped .9 percent to 14.4 percent and Bing’s share dropped .8 percent to 9.9 percent. Nielsen also reported that there were 9.9 billion searches performed during the month.
Google Expands Personalized Search Results to All Users
Monday, December 7th, 2009For several years Google has provided users signed into a Google account the option of receiving search results that have customized based on their previous search queries. On Friday Google announced that it will expand Personalized Search to all users. With Personalized Search, Google customizes search results in attempt to show results that are the [...]
Yahoo and Microsoft Finalize Search Pact
Monday, December 7th, 2009Yahoo and Microsoft have finalized their agreement that will have Microsoft provide the search results and advertising for Yahoo Search. The definitive agreement was originally scheduled to be completed in late October and was delayed while details were worked out. The pact will still need to receive regulatory approval before it can begin which the [...]
Google Starts Incorporating Breadcrumb Links into Search Results
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Google has announced that they have begun to incorporate website’s breadcrumb links into some search results. Breadcrumbs links are used to aid users in navigating the hierarchy of a website. For a small number of websites, Google will trim the URL shown under a search results snippet to just the domain name and then display [...]
