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comScore Sunsets Its Compete PRO Service And Recommends SimilarWeb To Its Clients

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Back in April, comScore, a media measurement firm, bought the Digital Intelligence unit of market research firm Millward Brown, which built the unit around its previous purchase ow web traffic analysis firm Complete. comScore had launched a PRO web traffic service, based on what Complete (comScore’s competitor) had provided. That same day in April saw Millward …

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Columbia University Researchers Claim 28% Of Google’s URL Takedown Requests Are Invalid

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Columbia University’s American Assembly and Berkeley has published a research paper that claims almost 30 percent of the more than two million URL takedown requests Google receives daily may not be valid. There is data that Google gives to the Lumen database, who is an independent, third-party research project that was created to analyze DMCA requests and …

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Data Shows That Search Search Query Volumes Peaked In 2013 On PC

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The US desktop search rankings from comScore for February is out, and according to the newest data, there is almost no changes month over month.  Ultimately, thee was only very incremental movement. Bing is seeing a continued slight gain, while Ask is seeing a slow sink closer and closer to one percent.  AOL has reached an abysmal …

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Google Down 1 Billion PC Searches From 2014, But Mobile Volumes Likely Way Up

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On Thursday, January 21, December desktop search rankings from comScore was released.  According to the report, Bing had gained slightly versus November, but most of the others are off only a fraction of a point. Google was found to have lost market share and volume when compared to a year ago, when it had a 65.4 percent share. …

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comScore Believes that Google Desktop May Have Peaked Last Year

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Last Friday, comScore released their monthly report on US desktop search market share.  According to the report, Google controlled 63.8 percent of all PC search volume in August, while Microsoft’s Bing had 20.6 percent, and Yahoo had only 12.7 percent. Bing had increased fraction of a percent at Google’s expense, while Yahoo didn’t see any changes for …

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comScore – Google Controls 65 Percent Of Search, Bing 33 Percent

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What would you say the biggest search engine is?  What do you think the second biggest search engine is?  For the most part, people would say that the biggest search engine these days is easily Google, and in second place, would be Bing.  According to the numbers provided by comScore for the US search market for …

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US Desktop Search Rankings Continue To Hold Steady; Google Maintains 64% Share

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For the second month in a row, the comScore’s US desktop search engine rankings has seen very little change.  In no surprise, Google is still holding a commanding lead of 64% of the share of the market.  On the opposite end of the spectrum, we have Ask, who is commanding the smallest share, at less than …

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ComScore’s May 2015 Report Says Virtually No Change In US Desktop Search Market Share

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According to a U.S. desktop search report by comScore back in May, there has been practically zero change in search market share for Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask and AOL between the months of April and May. 64 percent of the market share was owned by Google, and Bing was still holding steady at the 20 percent …

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Yahoo Loses Market Share As Some Firefox Users Return To Google

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comScore has released the February US search market share numbers and it looks like some of the gains that Yahoo made since November since their default search deal with Firefox has been lost.  This is because some of the users that went over to Firefox has since decided to return to Google.  In all honestly, I’m not shocked by …

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