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Dec 28, 2008

November 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

November 2008 U.S. Core Search Rankings
Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in November with 63.5 percent of the searches conducted, up 0.4 percentage points from October, followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.4 percent), Microsoft Sites (8.3 percent), Ask Network (4.0 percent), and AOL LLC (3.8 percent).

Americans conducted 12.3 billion searches at the core search engines, down 3 percent from October. Google Sites handled 7.8 billion core searches, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.5 billion and Microsoft Sites with 1 billion.

November U.S. Expanded Search Rankings
In the comScore November 2008 analysis of the top properties where search activity is observed, Google Sites led with 10.8 billion searches, flat versus October. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 2.6 billion searches, followed by Microsoft Sites with 1.1 billion and AOL LLC with 725 million.

Check the whole report :http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2652

Dec 24, 2008

Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating your social networks


Ping.fm is a very simple, useful service that enables you to send a message to 30+ social networks at once, using either standard e-mail, your mobile phone or popular IM services. Its simplicity apparently attracted two high-profile angel investors, according to a company blog post. The new backers are Reid Hoffman (who just became CEO of LinkedIn again) and Joi Ito.

We first took note of Ping.fm in late March this year, when the service was still in private beta, and we warned it could well become merely ‘a feature of a feature’. Nonetheless, the site seems to be holding its own and has attracted enough users to start having problems scaling the service.

Ping.fm apparently had its share of problems and slow response times the past few weeks, and the new capital should help them obtain more stability. From the post:

This is mainly because of not having the resources to maintain the volume of users and overall traffic we are seeing. This investment will allow us to scale our hardware to improve the reliability of our service as well as continue to increase the awesome that is Ping.fm instead of babysitting smoking servers all day.

It’s unclear how much both men have invested in the pinging service. It’s also unclear if there will ever be mainstream adoption of Ping.fm, as it seems a bit reserved to power socnet users / early adopters.

(Source: ReadWriteWeb)

Dec 5, 2008

30 Largest Social Bookmarking Site part 3

21- ma.gnolia.com
Inbound Links : 13,701,444
Compete Monthly Visitors : 110,662
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 32,363
Alexa Ranking : 7,454
Page Rank : 7

22- Tailrank.com
Inbound Links : 5,320,211
Compete Monthly Visitors : 71,563
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 35,783
Alexa Ranking : 28,920
Page Rank : 7

23- ShoutWire.com
Inbound Links : 168,480
Compete Monthly Visitors : 101,738
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 55,337
Alexa Ranking : 10,552
Page Rank : 6

24- Simpy.com Inbound Links : 13,107,730
Compete Monthly Visitors : 62,645
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 49,205
Alexa Ranking : 10,948
Page Rank : 7

25- BlogMarks.net
Inbound Links : 9,748,453
Compete Monthly Visitors : 61,740
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 28,075
Alexa Ranking : 11,880
Page Rank : 6

26- BlueDot.us
Inbound Links : 1,159,780
Compete Monthly Visitors : 107,717
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 60,045
Alexa Ranking : 12,072
Page Rank : 6

27- Spurl.net
Inbound Links : 18,628,253
Compete Monthly Visitors : 42,300
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 3,483
Alexa Ranking : 14,300
Page Rank : 6

28- linkswarm.com
Inbound Links : 150,842
Compete Monthly Visitors : 14,504
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 10,476
Alexa Ranking : 47,267
Page Rank : 5

29- Spotback.com
Inbound Links : 97,564
Compete Monthly Visitors : 42,838
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 5,037
Alexa Ranking : 42,015
Page Rank : 5

30- MyBookmarks.com Inbound Links : 25,191
Compete Monthly Visitors : 10,934
Quantcast Monthly Visitors : 7,727
Alexa Ranking : 108,226
Page Rank : 5

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