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Friday February 22, 2008

comScore Releases January 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

comScore released search data Thursday with figures showing Google has increased its lead in the search market for January, now accounting for 58.4 percent, or 6.1 billion of online searches in the U.S. Yahoo remained in second place with roughly 22%, while MSN, AOL and Ask's search market shares all remained relatively the same, maintaining third, fourth and fifth spots, respectively. Search overall increased in January by 8.9 percent from December, with Americans conducting over 10 billion combined searches across the 5 top search engines. Search was previously down 4% in December versus the previous month, according to comScore.

http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2068
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/02/21/afx4681540.html
http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=77008
http://www.bigmouthmedia.com/live/articles/us-internet-users-conducted-more-than-10bn-search.asp/4452/
http://news.digitaltrends.com/news/story/15823/google_still_growing_search_lead

A Google Competition To Land On The Moon

10 teams from five countries have announced their intention to participate in the Google Lunar X Prize competition. The event is sponsored by Google, which has agreed to pay $20 million to the first team that lands on the moon, travels at least 500 meters and sends data packages, video, and images along the way. The second team to accomplish the goals will win $5 million. There is a goal of completing the task by 2012, with the prize money diminishing past that point. The X Prize Foundation is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit group which aims to gain greater insights into the solar system and to find new sources of clean energy as a result of the contest.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/business/22space.html
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/02/22/google-moon-xprize-tech-ebiz-cx_wt_0222moon.html
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6231576.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_8332888
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/22/MNNGV6OAH.DTL

Japan’s Mixi To Take On China

Mixi, Japan’s most popular online networking Web site and second most visited Web site after Yahoo Japan plans to expand to China with hopes to tap into China's fast growing online advertising market. The number of Internet users in China is expected to reach 200 million by 2010 making it the world’s largest Internet market by users. Mixi will join Social Networking sites MySpace and Koreas Cyworld in trying to establish a foothold in the Chinese market.

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUST34437720080220

[edited by: Vanessa_Zamora at 7:26 pm (utc) on Feb. 22, 2008]