Social networks top Google search
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Social networks Bebo and MySpace are the two most searched for terms of 2006 on Google.
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Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion stumbled across Technorati WTF (currently down), which lists the most popular blog stories of the day in a Digg or Techmeme type hieracral system.  It&#8217;s nice to see more niche search engines using the Digg model for gauging popularity via user voting, and this form of social media is slowly growing [...]
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(InfoWorld) - Google's flagship search site accounted for just over half of all online searches in the U.S. in August, according to a survey by Nielsen/Netratings. The search giant played host to just over 3 billion searches during the month, and its search traffic grew 30 percent year-on-year. Yahoo placed second with 24 percent of all searches, but also enjoyed strong, 23 percent year-on-year growth. Microsoft'sÂ revamped Windows LiveÂ trailed in third with 10 percent market share and just under 600 million searches. AOL's search suffered the biggest dip in growth. Although AOL Search finished fourth with over 328 million queries, its traffic fell 18.2 percent compared to the same month in 2005.
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By Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 10--Google. MySpace. Facebook. YouTube. They're not just insanely popular phenomena: They also are businesses that require superpowerful computers distributing mountains of data in microseconds to eager users.
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In April, Internet users typed a staggering 3.77 billion searches into Google, according to statistics compiled by Nielsen/NetRatings Inc. That total accounted for just over fifty-five percent of all searches; Yahoo Inc. was second with roughly twenty-two percent of all searches.
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comScore just released its search engine analysis results for June and data shows that Google once again is ahead of the pack with 49.5% of the U.S. search market. Top rivals Yahoo and MSN trails behind with 25.1%  and 13.2% respectively. The data showed that despite maintaing its lead, Google&#8217;s share of the search [...]
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By Jefferson Graham  Yahoo is the most widely used online site, but youth-oriented social networks are the fastest growing on the Internet. And everybody wants a piece of the action.
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Plus: Is Microsoft search engine crawling Google? [News.com Extra]
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Clocks up 3.8 billion searches in April Google accounted for 55 per cent of all search queries carried out in the US in the month of April, according to Nielsen/NetRatings data released Tuesday.â¦
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Friendster has rolled out a new internet search service powered by Eurekster that taps into your online social network to personalize and enhance search results.
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More Americans are Googling themselves  -  and many are checking out their friends, co-workers and romantic interests, too
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The balance of power in social networking is moving from the Web site to the user, and that could be accelerated with a new tool released Friday by Google -- a Social Graph API (application programming interface).
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Google Inc. is best known for finding information online, but sometimes the Internet search leader also works behind the scenes to look for missing people like renowned aviator Steve Fossett.
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Taking the pulse on hot topics and social media sites for SEO insight
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Research reveals which social network site is capturing the hearts and clicks of Britons.
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Googleâs top minds offer a peek inside the ever-changing algorithm that provides search results for half a billion users.
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Toogle: Cool Google Image Search Implementation  Google has become a synonymous with Internet Searching. It has also become a verb with all those talks about Googling this and Googling that. But the truth remains; Google is the best thing to happen to Internet Searching in years. And it does great at ...