• Online searches conducted by Americans in June 2006: 6.4 billion
  • (comScore Networks, July 2006)
  • Percentage of US searches comprised of three or four word phrases: 51.1%
  • (OneStat.com, July 2006)
  • Number of new blog posts created every second: 18.6
  • (comScore Networks, July 2006)
  • Percentage of Internet users who say the online communities to which they belong are very or extremely important: 71.9%
  • (USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future, June 2006)
  • US browser usage share of Mozilla Firefox: 15.8%
  • (OneStat.com, July 2006)
  • US online social network ad spending share of all online ad spending in 2010: 6.3%
  • (eMarketer, July 2006)
Vol. 1 No. 3 Fall 2006

Google has secured deals with MySpace, MTV, and XM, Yahoo! gave birth to a new spider, and Microsoft keeps breathing more life into Live. Catch up on a few of the more notable engine developments
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by Bryan Wiener, President, Adapted from OMMA Magazine
Most of marketers’ video content will be found through the main search engines, not video portals. By optimizing video for the big three engines, marketers will gain the broadest reach and keep their audience on their site.
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by David Berkowitz, Director of Strategic Planning, Adapted from MediaPost's Search Insider Summit
Google has secured deals wtih Myspace, MTV, and XM, Yahoo! gave birth to a new spider, and Microsoft keeps breathing more life to Live.
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by Dave Williams, Chief Strategist and Co-Founder
A new study from 360i and SearchIgnite examines how users interact with both natural and paid search listings by studying the complete click path to conversions across both paid and natural searches.
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