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Comscore released a July 2007 study involving video usage on the web. Google video sites came in at number one, while YouTube hosted 37% of Internet users. WebProNews took this information to the streets to find out what drives people to watch videos. For the results of the study and more details [...] Tags: , ComScore, Google Video, Kara Ratliff, News Update, Video Usage, YouTube

The blogging craze may be turning into what some consider the “norm.” Since their emergence nearly a decade ago, they have flourished and include everything from news, politics, sports, and even their personal lives. According to blog search engine Technorati, 3 years ago, only 2 million blogs were on the webbut today, there [...] Tags: Abbby Prince, Blogging, Blogs, ComScore, Engadget, Eric Schmidt, News Update, Rebecca Kelly, seomoz.org, Technorati

Amazon.com and TiVo teamed up to allow users to watch videos bought on the Internet and sent to a television connected to a TiVo settop box. Amazon announced the “Amazon Unbox in TiVo” idea last month and expanded the download service to more than 1.5 million TiVo subscribers. TiVo and Amazon continue attracting [...] Tags: Amazon, Bavarian State Library, China, ComScore, TiVo, Videos, Warner Music, yahoo

Yahoo presented its new ranking model to the search community three weeks ago. This model came with new advertising grouping, geo-targeting, and quality score features. ComScore stared measuring the week ending in February 4, 2007 before Panama’s launch. ComScore looked at the sponsored search click-through rates before Panama, and then the click-through [...] Tags: ComScore, Measurement, Statistics, Yahoo Panama

American searchers spent a lot of time in January hitting the search engines. ComScore said Americans made 6.9 billion searches for the month, with Google handling 3.3 billion of them. Those searches gave Google 47.5 percent of the market, and that was a little increase over their December share. After Google, the other major search [...] Tags: ComScore, Market Share, Searches January

WebProNews correspondent Debbie Harrison recently at the Search Engine Strategies conference in London. SES focused one of the topics on local search marketing. ComScore informs marketers that 40 percent of all online searches relate to local information. Latitude’s director of search Jon Myers said users are 30 percent more likely to buy a [...] Tags: ComScore, Grant Muckle, Local Search, SES London