Slashtag search. Bing, Yahoo Increase Market Share Again In February. Although the effect’s reminiscent of what dental tools would do to a gigantic block of marble, Bing and Yahoo continue to chip away at Google’s lead in the search market, according to new data from Experian Hitwise. The two companies’ combined market share increased 3.79 percent on a month-over-month basis. That gave Bing and Yahoo a share of 28.48 percent in February, up from 27.44 percent in January. Google’s market share, meanwhile, slipped from 67.95 percent to 66.69 percent, a relative decrease of 1.85 percent. So again, Bing and Yahoo aren’t ready to dethrone Google. But their progress is hard to deny. What’s more, Experian Hitwise said in a statement, “Yahoo! Finally – although it’s hard to say what this will achieve – we’ll point out that Internet Explorer 9 is supposed to grant users access to certain advanced features on Bing, and the search engine’s market share could increase some more as a result.
Bing, Yahoo Increase Market Share Again In February. Blekko blog | slash the web! Blekko Partners With Stack Overflow To Improve Search Results. Blekko and Stack Overflow have announced a partnership that aims to use the latter’s community of programmers to improve programming- and tech-related searches on Blekko. The agreement calls for Stack Overflow’s community of programmers to “help improve and maintain programming-related slashtags,” while Stack’s CTO, Jeff Atwood, will be the editor of those slashtags.
Stack Overflow’s logo will show up on search results that have been curated by Atwood and the editor team. Some members of the Stack Overflow community have been active in discussions about search engine spam, particularly the recent debate over spam and search quality on Google. See Google May Let You Blacklist Domains To Fight Spam for a little more and a related link to discussion on Hacker News. Late last year, Blekko announced a partnership with DuckDuckGo where those two small search engines agreed to share information and search results. Related Topics: Blekko | Channel: Consumer | Top News. Indie Search Engine Blekko Posting Nice Growth.
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