PRESS RELEASE — Aug 20 — What makes a search engine a search engine is becoming cloudy. According to comScore, in July 2007, the top search engine sites were: Google (5.5 billion); Yahoo (2.5 billion); MSN Windows Live (1.2 billion); YouTube (1.1 billion); MySpace (575 million); MapQuest (523 million); eBay (472 million); Ask Network (462 […]

PC PRO — Sep 20 — According to comScore, more than 1 billion of Earth’s 6 billion people are now subscribed to social networking sites, contributing to more than a quarter of all internet traffic. 154 million users log in on a daily basis, with fewer than 5% of them accessing the sites from mobile […]

MASHABLE — Mar 8 — Compete has presented the top 20 social sites and their growth. MySpace, despite keeping its #1 spot, has actually diminished in visitor activity by 1%. Facebook’s growth measured 77% since February ‘07. According to Compete, Bebo and Hi5 rose 3% and 1%, respectively. MyYearBook made its way to #4, with […]

MASHABLE — Apr 17 — Alexa claims “better rankings,” and “improved methodology”. So far, Alexa has measured rankings of web sites according to the users of their Alexa Toolbar. The Toolbar was mostly used by the tech-savvy demographic which are interested in rankings, and therefore various technology and SEO sites were unfairly well ranked. […]

READ WRITE WEB — June 26 — YouTube’s huge lead in market share over other online video sites continues to get bigger, even as the over all video viewing market continues a decline. According to traffic analysts Hitwise, YouTube now sees 75.43% of traffic to the online video category; that’s up 26% from it’s […]