Google, Facebook Users Skew Young, Affluent, and Educated
Both Google and Facebook attract young, affluent, and educated Americans in large numbers, according to results of a new USA Today/Gallup poll. Each counts more than half of those under 50, those with college degrees, and those making more than $90,000 a year among their users.Gallup data indicates men (42%) are about as likely as [...]
Google Loses YOY Search Activity
In addition, Google saw its year-over-year query volume decline 0.6%, from 10.52 billion to 10.47 billion; and its year-over-year market share drop 11%, from 73.9% to 65.7%. On a month-over-month basis, Google actually experienced a 4.8% rise in unique visitors and 0.2% increase in query volume, although market share declined 1%.Search activity across the five [...]
Google Loses YOY Search Activity
While Google remained the dominant US search engine in December 2010, it experienced declines in year-over-year market share, query volume and unique visitors, according to new data from Compete. Most significantly, Google’s unique search visitor total dropped 16.6%, from 184 million in December 2009 to 154 million in December 2010. In addition, Google saw its [...]
Google Drops Real Estate Search on Google Maps
At Google one of our key philosophies is to take risks and to experiment. To that end, in July 2009 we announced the ability to find property for sale or rent directly on Google Maps. This is one of the “search options” next to the search box on Google Maps, and is currently available in [...]
Google to hire record 6000 employees in 2011
GOOGLE said overnight it will hire a record number of people this year, taking on more than 6000 workers “across the board and around the globe.” The internet giant added more than 4500 “Googlers” to its employee ranks in 2010 and plans to easily eclipse that figure this year, Google senior vice president of engineering [...]
