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53.6% of Google users are male, 50.2% of Yahoo! Search users are female

Google has most of the male Interner users, but Yahoo! has a higher proportion of searchers between the ages of 18-34 than Google, MSN, or Ask Jeeves, according to a Hitwise study published in MediaPost. Google users were 53.6% male, while Ask Jeeves users were 58.7% female. Yahoo! and MSN...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSN, Google Inc., Ask Jeeves Inc.

Blog posts 2005-09-05

Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Ask Jeeves are top search engines

Search engine use among active Internet users spiked to 114.5 mln unique users or 39% of Americans in January, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. The Internet researcher's report, out today, said that each user spent nearly 40 minutes using search engines during the month. The top five search venues in January were...

Tags: search engine, MSN, Search, Ask Jeeves Inc.

Blog posts 2004-02-23

Additional Resources

iPod touch gets VoIP, steals some iPhone thunder

The 'funnest' iPod ever has kicked it up a notch. Bam! Thanks to a microphone adapter and some free software called Truphone, the second-generation iPod touch is now capable of courting consumers as a VoIP mobile phone, in the most literal of senses (just...

Tags: Apple iPhone, VoIP, Apple iPod, Call, Apple iPod Touch, Truphone, Truphone Application, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Top Web sites in October 2008

Brand Audience, 000 Time Per Person 1. Google 122,325 1:23:07 2. Yahoo! 116,078 3:23:29 3. MSN/Windows Live 102,494 2:23:27 4. Microsoft 92,348 0:45:54 5. AOL Media Network 88,028 3:34:41 6. YouTube 77,480 0:53:25 7. Fox Interactive...

Tags: Web, Web Site, Wiki, Web Site Development, Branding, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-12-01

US search engine market shares in October 2008

Domain October 2007 September 2008 October 2008 www.google.com 64.49% 71.16% 71.70% search.yahoo.com 21.65% 18.06% 17.74% search.msn.com 7.42% 5.36% 5.40% www.ask.com 4.76% 3.63% 3.53% Source: Hitwise by NB

Tags: Search Engine, Search, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Top video sites ranked by number of streams

Brand Streams, 000 Audience, 000 YouTube 5,354,392 81,881 Yahoo! 264,266 29,908 Fox Interactive Media 242,444 19,258 MSN/Windows Live 164,776 10,980 Nickelodeon Kids and Family Network 162,971 6,152 Hulu 142,261 6,324 ESPN 127,794 8,434 CNN...

Tags: Network, Video, Corporate Communications, Networking, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-28

Fastest-growing business and finance sites in France in September 2008

Property Aug-2008 Sep-2008 % Change Total French Internet Audience 32,227 32,610 1% Business/Finance - news/research 5,867 6,392 9% Boursier.com 254 526 107% Lexpansion.com 161 316 97% Capital Magazin 156 306 96% Lemoneymag.fr 175 333 90% Orange...

Tags: Financial Accounting, Finance, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-28

Top 50 US ad carriers in October 2008

Rank Property Audience, 000 Reach 1 Platform-A 173,713 91% 2 Yahoo! Network 164,080 86% 3 Google Ad Network 158,928 83% 4 ValueClick Networks 155,356 82% 5 Specific Media 150,176 79% 6 Tribal Fusion 144,354 76% 7...

Tags: Advertisement, Media, Carrier, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Facebook wins $873 million judgement against spammer

Facebook wins $873 million judgement against spammerwhat a moronquit get ride of the moronRE: Facebook wins $873 million judgement against spammerMore! More! We need lost more of this kind of thing! Why isn't the news media picking up on any of this? We need to add pressure...

Tags: Cyberthreats, MESSAGE-ID, spam, Facebook, judgement, spammer, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

Subscription music services: Are we there yet?

Subscription music services: Are we there yet?I have used both...I have used both pay-per-song and subscription, and I will never ever go back to a pay-per-song model.The only people complaining about a subscription type service are those that never actually used it.I have news for those that think they "own"...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, subscription model, Are-we-there-yet, Subscription Music Service, Microsoft Zune, music

Discussion threads 2008-11-20

Fake Windows XP activation trojan goes 2.0

Fake Windows XP activation trojan goes 2.0Why are you advertising the merits of a trojan?This whole blog post reads like an ad, it almost sounds like you're bragging about how improved the latest version of the trojan is.Committed to your "piracy"That's really cute. Check the description vs. the URL....

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Financial services, Microsoft Windows XP, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Fake Windows XP, Fake Windows XP activation trojan, activation trojan

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

With Yang out at as Yahoo CEO; Steve Ballmer licks chops

With Yang out at as Yahoo CEO; Steve Ballmer licks chopsMicrosoft might buy a content companyMicrosoft apparently needs help with content.Yahoo also has a search business, which would help improve market share and ad revenues. A less important but still significant bonus.I think bloggers here at ZDNet are licking...

Tags: Schimdt, Yahoo! Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Yang, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Jerry Yang to step down as CEO, back to Chief Yahoo

Jerry Yang to step down as CEO, back to Chief YahooSteveB is enjoying this....My rep told me that those in the inner circle of SteveB are now celebrating. SteveB will personally dance on Yang's grave and spit on him for ignoring Microsoft's lucrative offer. One can only hope the next...

Tags: Branding, SteveB, Jerry Yang

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Adobe lands MLB.com deal

Adobe lands MLB.com dealFlash: Great workout for your computer's CPUIt is so easy to tell when I'm on a web site that uses CPU hogging flash items: the fan on my laptop starts singing, the Windows Task Manager's CPU indicator control on my taskbar becomes fully green, and my Windows...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Adobe Systems Inc., CPU, CPU Usage, MLB

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Symantec names Salem new CEO

Symantec has named Enrique Salem, currently chief operating officer, as its new CEO effective April 4. Salem will replace current chairman and CEO John Thompson, who will retire at the end of Symantec's fiscal year. Thompson will remain chairman as Salem takes over. Under...

Tags: Symantec Corp., Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Top 10 Web Brands for September 2008 in US

Brand Audience, 000 Time Per Person 1. Google 120,294 1:21:20 2. Yahoo! 115,165 3:25:26 3. MSN/Windows Live 98,989 2:21:54 4. Microsoft 93,634 0:39:31 5. AOL Media Network 87,366 3:40:56 6. YouTube 76,696 0:51:51 7. Fox Interactive...

Tags: Web, Wiki, Branding, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-15

Speak into your iPhone for fast Google search results

Speak into your iPhone for fast Google search resultsThe iPhone keypad screamsfor an application like this!RE: Speak into your iPhone for fast Google search resultsThis is truly groundbreaking for the iPhone, especially since it is coming from Google. I am glad to see they are continuing to support many mobile...

Tags: cloud computing, Speech recognition, WinMo, Google Inc., Apple iPhone, Google Search

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

(Images: Windows Live looks to make friends)

(Images: Windows Live looks to make friends)goodLooks good but google has clearly overtaken!RE: (Images: Windows Live looks to make friends)Where is the integration for Facebook.com? It's only the most popular Social Networking site. It has the most registered users 124,000,000(90,000,000 Active)! Next inline is Windows Live Spaces with 120,000,000....

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-11-14

Top sports Web sites for August 2008

Site Aug 2007 audience Aug 2008 audience Growth, % Sports Category 33,405 42,252 26% Yahoo! Sports 8,820 18,727 112% ESPN 10,314 11,936 16% FOX Sports on MSN 6,824 7,714 13% SI Digital Sites 3,913 6,490 66% CBS Sports...

Tags: Web, Audience, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, NB

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Windows Live Wave 3: Microsoft's kinder and simpler consumer services strategy?

Windows Live Wave 3: Microsoft's kinder and simpler consumer services strategy?So why the deemphasizing of Live Spaces?I find that strange that the Windows Live Team is not updating Spaces for Wave 3. Right now, the service is suffering from a number of issues: commentary spam, performance and the fact that...

Tags: Operating systems, start-page, Microsoft Corp., strategy, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Windows Live Wave, simpler consumer services strategy, consumer services strategy, Windows Live Wave 3

Discussion threads 2008-11-13