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Nielsen Online’s December search share numbers have been sending small ripples through the search marketing world. According to Nielsen, Microsoft’s Live Search was the only of the “big three” search engines to increase its market share in December, from 12% to 13.8% for queries performed in the United States.
On the other hand, Yahoo and Google [...]

Earlier this week, Hitwise released the latest figures of October’s search engine searches, based on a sample of ten million Internet users in the United States. The results are summarized below.
Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engines

October 2007

October 2006

Google

64.5%

60.9%

Yahoo

21.6%

22.3%

MSN / Live Search

7.4%

10.7%

Ask

4.8%

4.3%

The remaining 1.7% of searches is shared among 49 other search engines in [...]

After about eight months of downtime, Microsoft has decided to open up its link command features back to the public. These features became offline back in March 2007 due to massive amounts of automated queries, that undoubtedly put an unnecessary drain on Microsoft’s servers.
Link commands essentially allow webmasters to see how many backlinks there [...]