Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category
Friday, February 17th, 2012
It’s not surprising that Google and Facebook make the lion’s share of their revenues from advertising. But did you know that more than half of Apple’s revenues come from iPhone sales (or did before the iPad, anyway) and Microsoft rakes in 30 percent of its considerable earnings from its Office suite?
Here’s a chart from the busy folks at Stratis showing how little the businesses of some major tech firms are diversified:
Tags: chart, diversification of tech firms, Statistaa
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
 The online display advertising market is one of the fastest growing advertising segments, according to a new study by Zenith Optimedia. The current global display advertising market is predicted to reach $25.27 billion this year, with a 36% growth to $34.4 billion in 2013.
The display advertising market size was more than $5.5 billion during the same time period, representing 37% of the online advertising market. Banner ads made up the majority of display ads, with $3.414 billion in revenue and 23% of the market.
The digital video ad market brought in $891 million with 6% market share. Rich media earned $763 million (5% market share) and sponsorship ads made $467 (3% market share).
Leading the way in this market are your household names like Facebook, who has recently filed for their IPO, Yahoo! (YHOO), Google (GOOG), and Microsoft (MSFT). But with the explosive growth projected, there are plenty of opportunities for companies like FrogAds.com (OTCBB: FROG) and LookSmart (LOOK).
Tags: digital advertising, facebook, Microsoft, online display advertising segment, Yahoo, Zenith Optimedia
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
 Only four technology vendors deliver excellent customer experience, according to new research report published by Temkin Group, 2012 Temkin Experience Ratings of Tech Vendors, rates the customer experience of 60 large technology providers.
The research, which is based on a survey of 800 IT professionals from companies with at least $500 million in annual sales, shows that only four technology vendors deliver excellent customer experience: Microsoft business applications, Cisco, IBM SPSS, and Microsoft servers. The research also shows a strong connection between customer experience and the purchasing plans of large companies.
“Tech vendors that deliver a better customer experience will capture more IT spending from large companies,” states Bruce Temkin, author of the report and Managing Partner of Temkin Group.
The Temkin Experience Ratings are based on analyzing customer interactions in three areas:
- Functional: Can customers do what they are trying to do?
- Accessible: How easy is it for customers to do what they want to do?
- Emotional: How do customers feel about those interactions?
While four of the companies earned overall “excellent” ratings, nine others led by Compuware, Capgemini, and Fujitsu received “very poor” ratings.
The research also examined purchase momentum - the net percentage of companies that plan to buy more from a vendor in 2012 – for each of the 60 companies.
The technology vendors with the highest purchase momentum are SAS Institute, Apple, Cisco, Microsoft business applications and Microsoft servers. At the other end of the purchasing spectrum, Compuware, Alcatel-Lucent and Sybase have the lowest purchase momentum.
Temkin Group charted the Temkin Experience Ratings and the purchase momentum data for all 60 companies. This analysis uncovered a strong connection between customer experience and future purchase plans.
According to Temkin: “The tech sector has a long way to go in delivering great customer experience, but there’s loyalty at the end of the rainbow.”
This report can be accessed from the Temkin Group website at http://www.temkingroup.com or from the blog, Customer Experience Matters, at http://experiencematters.wordpress.com.
Tags: Alcatel-Lucent, Apple, Capgemini, Cisco, Compuware, Fujitsu, IBM, Microsoft servers, SAS, SPSS, SyBase, Temkin Group
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
 Virtualization savings are real – and are expected to grow – but government agencies need to overcome funding uncertainties and other significant barriers to achieve their virtualization goals, according to a study by MeriTalk underwritten by Microsoft and NetApp.
The new report, “Virtualization Vacuum: The 2012 Government Virtualization Study,” explores the current and future state of play in government server and desktop virtualization initiatives, including key differences between Federal and state/local markets.“Virtualization and consolidation are critical components of an effective cloud strategy, resulting in tangible benefits”
The survey of government IT decision makers indicates that virtualization initiatives are picking up momentum. Eighty-two percent of Federal and 77 percent of state-and-local IT professionals say their agencies have already implemented some server virtualization, leading to an estimated savings of 19 percent of their IT budgets – $15 billion across government.
By 2015, virtualized workloads are expected to nearly double from 37 to 63 percent – which would boost the savings to an estimated $23.6 billion government-wide.
According to the report, 57 percent of Federal and 64 percent of state-and-local respondents say server virtualization takes priority over desktop virtualization. While government agencies have plans to implement some form of desktop virtualization, less than one in 10 plan to virtualize all applications for all users. However, if desktop virtualization provides just half of the savings of server virtualization, agencies could save 9.5 percent of their IT budget or $7.5 billion.
“When agencies do begin developing their virtualization plans, they should look beyond servers and consider desktop virtualization as well,” said Mark Weber, President, U.S. Public Sector, NetApp. “The more opportunities that agencies are able to recognize and incorporate into their modernization frameworks, the greater their long-term benefits.”
Barriers to virtualization
Despite the proven results and clear savings opportunity, only 48 percent of Federal and 39 percent of state-and-local respondents believe that they have the funding needed to meet their server virtualization goals, and that’s not the only barrier.
The most common challenge that agencies face for both server and desktop virtualization is legacy application migration. Security is also a hold-up, but more so for Federal agencies than for state/local – 41 percent of Feds cited security concerns, as opposed to 24 percent of state-and-local respondents. Only 63 percent of respondents say their management fully supports server virtualization adoption.
Fewer than half report that their agency has a formal policy or common framework for server virtualization.
“Virtualization and consolidation are critical components of an effective cloud strategy, resulting in tangible benefits,” said Susie Adams, Microsoft Federal’s Chief Technology Officer.
Industry can realize tremendous leaps in scalability
“If agencies are thinking vigorously and broadly about combining server consolidation, data center consolidation, and private cloud infrastructures, the industry can realize tremendous leaps in scalability, cost savings, improved services, and integrated management. In many ways this begins with a smart approach to virtualization.”
The report also reveals that while virtualization yields big savings, good things come to those who wait. Fifty-seven percent of participants say they expect to wait one year or more to realize savings once a server virtualization solution is fully implemented and operational.
“Virtualization Vacuum: The 2012 Government Virtualization Study” is based on an online survey of 302 government agency CIOs, CTOs, IT directors/supervisors, IT managers, and data center managers conducted in October 2011. To download the full study results, please visit http://www.meritalk.com/virtualizationvacuum.
Tags: 2012 Government Virtualization study, government virutalization, Microsoft, MriTalk, NetApp
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
 Kathryn McKinley The first systematic power profiles of microprocessors could help lower the energy consumption of both small cell phones and giant data centers, report computer science professors from The University of Texas at Austin and the Australian National University.
Their results may point the way to how companies like Google, Apple, Intel and Microsoft can make software and hardware that will lower the energy costs of very small and very large devices.
“The less power cell phones draw, the longer the battery will last,” says Kathryn McKinley, professor of computer science at The University of Texas at Austin.
“For companies like Google and Microsoft, which run these enormous data centers, there is a big incentive to find ways to be more power efficient. More and more of the money they’re spending isn’t going toward buying the hardware, but toward the power the datacenters draw.”
McKinley says that without detailed power profiles of how microprocessors function with different software and different chip architectures, companies are limited in terms of how well they can optimize for energy usage.
The study she conducted with Stephen M. Blackburn of The Australian National University and their graduate students is the first to systematically measure and analyze application power, performance, and energy on a wide variety of hardware.
This work was recently invited to appear as a Research Highlight in the Communications of the Association for Computer Machinery (CACM). It’s also been selected as one of this year’s “most significant research papers in computer architecture based on novelty and long-term impact” by the journal IEEE Micro.
Measurements no one did before
“We did some measurements that no one else had done before,” says McKinley. “We showed that different software, and different classes of software, have really different power usage.”
McKinley says that such an analysis has become necessary as both the culture and the technologies of computing have shifted over the past decade.
Energy efficiency has become a greater priority for consumers, manufacturers and governments because the shrinking of processor technology has stopped yielding exponential gains in power and performance. The result of these shifts is that hardware and software designers have to take into account tradeoffs between performance and power in a way they did not ten years ago.
“Say you want to get an application on your phone that’s GPS-based,” says McKinley, “In terms of energy, the GPS is one of the most expensive functions on your phone. A bad algorithm might ping your GPS far more than is necessary for the application to function well. If the application writer could analyze the power profile, they would be motivated to write an algorithm that pings it half as often to save energy without compromising functionality.”
McKinley believes that the future of software and hardware design is one in which power profiles become a consideration at every stage of the process.
Intel, for instance, has just released a chip with an exposed power meter, so that software developers can access some information about the power profiles of their products when run on that chip. McKinley expects that future generations of chips will expose even more fine-grained information about power usage.
Even consumers may get app energy use info
Software developers like Microsoft (where McKinley is spending the next year, while taking a leave from the university) are already using what information they have to inform their designs.
And device manufacturers are testing out different architectures for their phones or tablets that optimize for power usage.
McKinley says that even consumers may get information about how much power a given app on their smart phone is going to draw before deciding whether to install it or not.
“In the past, we optimized only for performance,” she says. “If you were picking between two software algorithms, or chips, or devices, you picked the faster one. You didn’t worry about how much power it was drawing from the wall socket. There are still many situations today—for example, if you are making software for stock market traders—where speed is going to be the only consideration. But there are a lot of other areas where you really want to consider the power usage.”
Tags: Austin, computer science, device battery life, energy use, Kathryn McKinley, University of Texas
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
 Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012.
“IPv6 deployment is a key priority for Comcast in 2012, and we’re excited to participate in this Internet Society event that will help catalyze action around the world on this important transition.”
Organized by the Internet Society, and building on the successful one-day World IPv6 Day event held on 8 June 2011, World IPv6 Launch represents a major milestone in the global deployment of IPv6. As the successor to the current Internet Protocol, IPv4, IPv6 is critical to the Internet’s continued growth as a platform for innovation and economic development.
“The fact that leading companies across several industries are making significant commitments to participate in World IPv6 Launch is yet another indication that IPv6 is no longer a lab experiment; it’s here and is an important next step in the Internet’s evolution,” commented Leslie Daigle, the Internet Society’s Chief Internet Technology Officer. “And, as there are more IPv6 services, it becomes increasingly important for companies to accelerate their own deployment plans.”
ISPs participating in World IPv6 Launch will enable IPv6 for enough users so that at least 1% of their wireline residential subscribers who visit participating websites will do so using IPv6 by 6 June 2012. These ISPs have committed that IPv6 will be available automatically as the normal course of business for a significant portion of their subscribers. Committed ISPs are:
- AT&T
- Comcast
- Free Telecom
- Internode
- KDDI
- Time Warner Cable
- XS4ALL
Participating home networking equipment manufacturers will enable IPv6 by default through the range of their home router products by 6 June 2012. Committed equipment manufacturers are:
Web companies participating in World IPv6 Launch will enable IPv6 on their main websites permanently beginning 6 June 2012. Inaugural participants are:
Content delivery network providers Akamai and Limelight will be enabling their customers to join this list of participating websites by enabling IPv6 throughout their infrastructure.
As IPv4 addresses become increasingly scarce, every segment of the industry must act quickly to accelerate full IPv6 adoption or risk increased costs and limited functionality online for Internet users everywhere. World IPv6 Launch participants are leading the way in this effort.
For more information about World IPv6 Launch, products and services covered, as well as links to useful information for users and information about how other companies may participate, visit:
http://www.worldipv6launch.org
Tags: AT&T, Comecast, facebook, Free Telecom, Google, Intermode, IPv6 launch day, June 6 2012, KDDI, Microsoft Bing, Time Warne Cable, World IPv6 Day, XS4ALL, Yahoo
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
 Has TechCrunch seemed anemic to you since founder Michael Arrington left following a dispute with management? It seems to have less bite. Now, the Financial Times reports, top editorial and management talent is deserting AOL and TechCrunch.
FT says three top names left this month, including Brad Garlinghouse, head of AOL’s Silicon Valley office, Sarah Lacy, a senior TechCrunch writer, and Saul Hansell, a former New York Times reporter who was senior editor at the Huffington Post (now owned by AOL, as is TechCrunch).
TechCrunch already lost senior writers Paul Carr and MG Siegler, and rumors say it may also lose Heather Harde, the chief executive.
AOL bought TechCrunch for $25 million last year, but sacking Arrington was not the firm’s smartest move.
Music labels drop Spotify
More than 200 music labels from UK distributor STHoldings have dropped Spotify, saying in a statement, “We have concerns that these services cannibalise the revenues of more traditional digital services.”
The distributor also pulled its content from Rdio, Napster, and Simfy.
STHoldings said in its statement that it feels the music of its artists “Loses its specialness by its exploitation as a low value/free commodity.”
We’re not sure they’re right about that. While we’re not particularly fans of Spotify, which wants to tell everyone on Facebook every thing you listent to and requires a Facebook connection, we do use Pandora, which recently removed the 40 hour restriction on how much listeners can tune in free, and Radio IO, which streams FM quality music.
Both have introduced us to new music, new genres, and new artists and music purchases.
Windows Phone 7 marketplace features 40,000 apps and games
 We’ve tested half a dozen phones, including a Windows Phone 7 from HTC, and several phones running the Google Android system and the Windows Phone was had the most intuitive, easiest to use operating system. Microsoft was late to the smartphone game, but that may turn out to be an advantage.
We recently saw a Tweet from one of our most tech savvy friends and an Apple iPhone fan who tested a Windows 7 Phone for an article in another publication who said just about the same thing, admitting he was tempted to switch to it.
But when buying a smartphone, users want not just the phone but the apps that make them smart and Apple’s AppStore is loaded with 140,000 of them.
The Windows Phone Marketplace, though, now has more than 40,000 apps. Since many apps are just variations of others – there are multiple apps to do common tasks, from taking notes to losing weight. Developers are getting on the Windows Phone 7 wagon – there were only 35,000 apps available for it in October and 30,000 in August, so its adding 5,000 apps a month.
We’re not the only ones who think the Windows Phone 7 may grab a significant chunk of market – both Gartner and IDC have forecast that it will be the number 2 platform by 2015. – Allan Maurer
Tags: AOL, Apple AppStore, execs leaving AOL, Google Android, Internet radio services, iPhone, labels drop Spotify, Michael Arrington, Pandora, Radio IO, smartphone apps, Spotify, talent leaving TechCrunch, TechCrunch, trouble at TechCrunch, Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, Windows Phone apps
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
 Gary Vaynerchuk keynotes the 2011 Internet Summit in Raleigh next week, which is nearly sold-out. Fewer than 50 seats remain for next week’s Internet Summit, which is bringing hundreds of digital media and marketing thought-leaders to the Raleigh, NC Convention Center Nov. 15-16.
The event, which attracts a capacity crowd, offers take-away insight into social media marketing, search engine optimization, ecommerce trends, email marketing, we and mobile analytics, big data, cloud computing, startup fund-raising and much more.
You’ll have access to visionary thought leaders who will share their insight and experience with you. Hear from the founders of companies like Twitpic, TheLadders & HowStuffWorks! Not enough? How about a Keynote from Top rated SXSW keynote and ‘Social Media King’ Gary Vaynerchuk?
That’s just a sampling of the more than 120 speakers and presenters that will be on hand.
We interviewed just a handful of the many presenters. For a preview of what thought-leaders will be presenting at the event see:
The Internet Summit’s Talented Speakers & Presenters include:
- Gary Vaynerchuk, Co-Founder, VaynerMedia
- Marc Cendella, Founder & CEO, TheLadders
- Marshall Brain, Founder, HowStuffWorks
- David Payne, Chief Digital Officer, Gannett
- Noah Everett, Founder, TwitPic and Heello
- Ro Choy, COO, Formspring
- Liz Strauss, Co-founder, SOBcon & LizStrauss.com
- Brian Hitney, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft
- David Perry, Business Development Executive, Google
- Jack Krawczyk, Sr Product Marketing Mgr, StumbleUpon
- Traug Keller, Sr VP of Production, ESPN
- Catherine Cook, Co-Founder, myYearbook
- Eric Ranta, SVP of Value Engineering, SAP
- Micahel Cristinziano, VP Strategic Development, Citrix
- Doug Smith, Dir Product Management, Taleo
- Malin Huffman, Head of Product Development, NetSuite
- Jerry Cuomo, CTO WebSphere, IBM
- Lee Congdon, CIO, RedHat
- Jeff Ragovin, Chief Revenue Officer, Buddy Media
- Peggy Fry, Chief Revenue Officer, Clearspring Technologies
- Mike Relm, Founder, Relmvision
- Bob Young, Founder & CEO, Lulu.com
- Donna DeMarco, Co-Founder & VP, Viddler
- Emily Keye, Marketing Strategist, Bronto
- Tammy Gordon, Dir Social Communications & Strategy, AARP
- Markus, Renstrom, Head of SEO, Yahoo!
- Dr. Manuel Aparicio, CEO & Co-Founder, Saffon Technologies
- Julianna DeLua, Enterprise Solutions Evangelist, Informatica
- Tony Haile, General Manager, Chartbeat
- Ryan Mannion, Chief Technology Officer, Politico
- David Giambruno, SVP and CIO, Revlon
- Gaurav Howard, Sr. Dir Product Marketing, Marketo
- Michael Lubek, CIO, GE Global Applications
- Angela Connor, Social Media Manager, Capstrat
- Ryan Allis, CEO, iContact
- Prerna Gupta, CEO, Khush
- Kevin Dando, Dir Digital & Education Communication, PBS
- Clint Smith, Co-Founder & CEO, Emma
- Matt Crenshaw, VP of Marketing, Discovery Communications
- Scott Gunter, VP of User Experience, Usability Sciences
- Lindsay Wassell, Partner & Consultant, KeyphraSEOlogy
- Steve Ashley, VP Internet Marketing, Market America
- Dennis Gullitto, APM Product Marketing Manager, Compuware
- Scott Baker, Sr. Mgr Virtualization & Cloud Engineering, NetApp
- Jeramiah Dooley, vArchitect, VCE/Cisco Virtualization
- Gerard Bush, Chief Creative Dir, The brpr Group
- Ted McDonald, Analyst, Verisign
- Rob Ousbey, VP Operations Seattle, Distilled
- David Gudai, VP of Marketing, Storkie
- Glenn Mersereau, Dir of Internet Marketing, PHE
- Jim Tobin, President, Ignite Social Media
- Kevin Pomplun, CEO, SkyGrid
- Sherry Bastion, Web Creative Director, Lenovo
- John Lovett, Sr Partner, Web Analytics Demystified
- Drew Diskin, Dir of Interactive & Web Strategy, Penn Medicine
- Lynette Montgomery, VP Ecommerce, Burt’s Bees
- Noah Dinkin, Co-Founder & President, FanBridge
- Jessica Bowman, SEOinhouse.com
- Todd Moy, Sr User Experience Designer, Viget Labs
- Donna Bedford, Global SEO Lead, Lenovo
- Francis Shepherd, Media Evangelist
- Dallas Lawrence, Chief Digital Strategist, Burson-Marsteller
- Karen Albritton, President, Capstrat
- Thuy LeDihn, Senior Marketing Manager, .ORG
- Adam Covati, Co-founder & CTO, Argyle Social
- Kyle Scott Richardson, Social Media, NC National Guard
- Cara Rousseau, Social Media Manager, Duke University
- Loren Baker, VP of Marketing, Blueglass
- Matthew Muñoz, Partner & Chief Design Officer, New Kind
- Jill Whalen, CEO, HighRankings
- Jason Caplain, General Partner, Southern Capitol Ventures
- David Heaney, Senior Associate, TomorrowVentures
- John Lawrence, Partner & CFO, Longworth Venture Partners
- Brooks Raiford, CEO, NCTA
- Roger Krakoff, Managing Partner, Cloud Capital Partners
- Charles Nicholls, Chief Strategy Officer, SeeWhy
- Jeff Campbell, VP & Co-Founder, Resolution Media
- Gary Storr, Business Architect & Solutions, Nortel
- Jeff Spivey, VP Board of Directors, ISACA
- Doug Hanna, CEO, A Small Orange
- Lisa, Braziel, Strategy Director, Ignite Social Media
- William Blackmon, CEO, LinkMein
- Chris Condayan, Public Outreach, Am Society for Microbiology
- Kyle Scott Richardson, Dir of Social Media, NC National Guard
- Jill Carlson, Marketing Manager, Argyle Social
- John Lane, VP Strategy & Creative, Centerline Digital
- Michael , Gowan, Associate Dir of Web Strategy, Duke Medicine
- Dana Kirchman, SVP Head of Client Operations, Lumi Mobile
Internet Summit is an outstanding learning experience mixed with prime networking opportunities and entertaining keynotes.
There’s even 5 additional hours of intense session digging deep into Social Media, SEO & Search, User Experience & Design and Analytics when you add the pre-conference to your registration.
Tags: AARP, Buddy Media, Capstrat, chartbeat, Clearspring Technologie, cloud computing, David Payne, David Perry, ecommerce trends, email marketing, ESPN, Gannett, Gary Vaynerchuk, Google, Howstuffworks, Internet Summit, Khush, Marshall Brain, measuring social, Microsoft, mobile presence, myYearbook, NC, NetSuite, Noah Everett, online advertising, paid search, Politico, Raleigh, Red Hat, reputation management, SAP, SEO, social media marketing, startup strategies, TheLadders, Twitpic, usability, web & mobile analytics, Yahoo
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Friday, November 11th, 2011
 Google Sites led the explicit core search market in October with 65.6 percent of search queries conducted, according to comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR).
U.S. Explicit Core Search
Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in October with 65.6 percent market share (up 0.3 percentage points), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 15.2 percent and Microsoft Sites with 14.8 percent (up 0.1 percentage point). Ask Network accounted for 2.9 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.5 percent.
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comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report*
October 2011 vs. September 2011
Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations
Source: comScore qSearch |
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| Core Search Entity |
Explicit Core Search Share (%) |
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| Sep-11 |
Oct-11 |
Point Change |
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| Total Explicit Core Search |
100.0% |
100.0% |
N/A |
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| Google Sites |
65.3% |
65.6% |
0.3 |
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| Yahoo! Sites |
15.5% |
15.2% |
-0.3 |
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| Microsoft Sites |
14.7% |
14.8% |
0.1 |
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| Ask Network |
3.0% |
2.9% |
-0.1 |
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| AOL, Inc. |
1.5% |
1.5% |
0.0 |
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*”Explicit Core Search” excludes contextually driven searches that do not
reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.
More than 18.0 billion explicit core searches were conducted in October, marking a 6-percent increase versus September. Google Sites ranked first with 11.9 billion (up 6 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.7 billion (up 4 percent) and Microsoft Sites with 2.7 billion (up 6 percent). Ask Network delivered 518 million searches (up 2 percent), while AOL, Inc. rounded out the top five with 277 million (up 5 percent).
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comScore Explicit Core Search Query Report
October 2011 vs. September 2011
Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations
Source: comScore qSearch |
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| Core Search Entity |
Explicit Core Search Queries (MM) |
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| Sep-11 |
Oct-11 |
Percent Change |
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| Total Explicit Core Search |
17,103 |
18,077 |
6% |
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| Google Sites |
11,171 |
11,863 |
6% |
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| Yahoo! Sites |
2,644 |
2,741 |
4% |
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| Microsoft Sites |
2,516 |
2,678 |
6% |
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| Ask Network |
507 |
518 |
2% |
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| AOL, Inc. |
265 |
277 |
5% |
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U.S. Total Core Search
Google Sites accounted for 66.2 percent of total core search queries conducted (up 0.8 percentage points), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 16.3 percent and Microsoft Sites with 13.6 percent (up 0.2 percentage points). Ask Network comprised 2.6 percent of total search queries, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.4 percent.
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comScore Total Core Search Share Report*
October 2011 vs. September 2011
Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations
Source: comScore qSearch |
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| Core Search Entity |
Total Core Search Share (%) |
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| Sep-11 |
Oct-11 |
Point Change |
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| Total Core Search |
100.0% |
100.0% |
N/A |
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| Google Sites |
65.4% |
66.2% |
0.8 |
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| Yahoo! Sites |
17.2% |
16.3% |
-0.9 |
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| Microsoft Sites |
13.4% |
13.6% |
0.2 |
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| Ask Network |
2.6% |
2.6% |
0.0 |
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| AOL, Inc. |
1.4% |
1.4% |
0.0 |
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* “Total Core Search” is based on the five major search engines, including
partner searches, cross-channel searches and contextual searches. Searches
for mapping, local directory, and user-generated video sites that are not on the
core domain of the five search engines are not included in these numbers.
Americans conducted 20.3 billion total core search queries in October, up 5 percent versus September. Google Sites ranked first with 13.4 billion searches (up 6 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 3.3 billion and Microsoft Sites with 2.8 billion (up 7 percent).
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comScore Total Core Search Query Report
October 2011 vs. September 2011
Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations
Source: comScore qSearch |
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| Core Search Entity |
Total Core Search Queries (MM) |
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| Sep-11 |
Oct-11 |
Percent Change |
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| Total Core Search |
19,345 |
20,295 |
5% |
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| Google Sites |
12,659 |
13,431 |
6% |
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| Yahoo! Sites |
3,326 |
3,306 |
-1% |
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| Microsoft Sites |
2,588 |
2,762 |
7% |
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| Ask Network |
507 |
518 |
2% |
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| AOL, Inc. |
265 |
277 |
5% |
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Tags: AOL, Ask Networks, comScore, Google, Microsoft, October 2011 core search results, Yahoo
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
 Nearly 2,000 interactive marketers, IT executives, entrepreneurs, digital/new media strategists, venture capitalists and technology professionals will connect at the Raleigh Convention Center for the 2011 Internet Summit Nov. 15-16 to hear more than 120 speakers delivering over 80 presentations and panel discussions about today’s hottest business trends.
Topics include social media, mobile applications, e-commerce, SEO/paid search, Internet usability, analytics & measurement, streaming/interactive video, cloud computing/virtualization and online advertising/branding.
New York Times best-selling author, brains behind the Wine Library, Internet celebrity and social media king Gary Vaynerchuck will deliver the keynote presentation that promises to be enlightening, inspiring and engaging.
A strong business case for for social media
Gary Vaynerchuk “I want to come at you practical, not theory or buzzwords,” says Vaynerchuck. “I guarantee, if you come in skeptical about social media, I will bring a strong B2B and B2C (business case) to the table.”
The conference and exhibits opens Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 1 p.m, with a keynote panel discussion: “The Future of Digital Media & Marketing” with executives from Google, Gannet Company, Inc., FormSpring, and Discovery Communications.
Participants will choose from over 25 80-minute sessions featuring more than 75 presentations tailored to their interests and needs, as well as get a glimpse into some of the industry’s newest Internet entrepreneurial products and tools in the Demo Showcase and Startup Lounge.
To wrap up day one, award-winning video DJ Mike Relm performs at the opening reception from 6-8 p.m.
Doors open day two at 7 a.m. for a networking breakfast, followed by presentations from featured thought leaders Marc Cendella, CEO, TheLadders.com, and Marshall Brain, founder of HowStuffWorks.
Register for what is sure to be a sold out event and get the latest about the Internet Summit 2011.
Here’s what some said on Twitter about the 2010 Internet Summit:
blairgraham: Congrats to @Internet_Summit founders @EricGregg and @Scott_Hedrick of @TJ_South! I hear you are crushing it again! Well played.
Cybersig55: @Internet_Summit great job #isum10!! This has been an informative and well organized event. I look forward to attending again next year!
Huddy: Super excited to have been at the #iSum10. Great people, great sessions, great lessons… everything you want from a great conference.
invitecottage: Great 2 days @Internet_Summit #isum10. Lots of ideas for the new year!
DH_David: Not sure if there is enough coffee to get me through the day as I recover from two great days at Internet Summit 2010 in Raleigh. #isum10.
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