Posts Tagged ‘Search Engines’

Google + Traffic Drops!

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 July 2011 06:46 Written by biggybox Thursday, 28 July 2011 06:37

Google’s super beta social networking “Google +” somehow slowed in traffic over the last week. Experian Hitwise made a report finding that both users and traffic through the website fell last week. Experian Hitwise is a global intelligence service that monitors traffic for online sites. Matt Tathum, an Experian rep, made sure that his findings were correct so as not to overplay the issue. The company gets their information from extrapolating data from ISPs and an opt-in panel of around 2.5 million users.

A total traffic decline of around 3% to 1.79 million over the last week ending July 23 compared to the last seven days, was the research company’s findings. Google+ ended up with 1.86 million visits the week prior. The average time on Google+ this week was down 10%, from 5 minutes and 50 seconds to 5 minutes and 15 seconds. Experian’s research methods are only for website traffic alone, which means they can only check the traffic to the website. These findings do not include mobile users and third-party application users. I was on my account last week, but it was from my phone, so they might not have been able to track my usage.

This report comes only after a steady increase in traffic since it’s launch on June 28. Only last week, comScore made a report of the network hitting 20 million unique visitors. I don’t know about you, but it seems kind of early to be slowing down. Google+ has been TESTING for one month and it has a little around 18 million users. That’s a lot, but not enough that it should be losing steam this early. Just imagine what’s going to happen when it’s open to everyone, and out of its testing version. What do you think will happen with this project? Leave your comments after the jump.

Tags: ComScore, Google, Hitwise, Search Engines, Searching, Social network service | Posted under Mind of The Geek | No Comments

Google’s Fun Little Doodles Get A Fun Little Patent

Last Updated on Wednesday, 23 March 2011 02:31 Written by Carpatus Wednesday, 23 March 2011 02:30

It’s a process that has been ten years in the making but Google has finally gotten a patent for their doodles. The drawings that replace the standard Google logo on holidays, anniversary’s, and when big events take place. The patent credited to co-founder Sergey Brin, is categorized as “systems and methods for enticing a user to visit a website.” It certainly has gotten me to visit Google on certain days. Something that might worry other websites though is the fact that is also covers changing the logo for holidays. I’m not even sure if you will be able to change your logo to something Google hasn’t used sometime in the years that Doodles has been used. Even if you could, you would still be seriously limited. It’s going to be interesting to see if Google enforces this patent.

Following the break is an excerpt from Google’s patent application describing what they are claiming

Tags: doodle, Google, Google logo, Patent, Search Engines, Sergey Brin | Posted under Mind of The Geek | No Comments

Google I/O Tickets Go On Sale Monday! Get ‘Em While They’re Hot!

Last Updated on Friday, 4 February 2011 08:43 Written by Adam Warren Friday, 4 February 2011 08:33

Google I/O, the biggest Google event of the year is happening on May 10-11. Whether you are a developer or not, you should check this event out, even though developers will get the most out of it. Registration for this event begins Monday February 7th and tickets will most likely sell out within minutes, so macro your keyboards and get ready.

Read on for ticket prices and other goodies.

Tags: AndroidMarket, Andy Rubin, Google, Google IO, Honeycomb, I/O, Ice Cream, Search Engines, Searching | Posted under Android, Geek Mobile | 1 Comment

Microsoft vs Google

Last Updated on Monday, 28 February 2011 07:01 Written by baldalbino Friday, 4 February 2011 04:30

Microsoft‘s Bing and Google are two of the world’s top Internet search engines. The two seemed to be working together to achieve search result harmony, however, Google has recently issued statements that Microsoft’s Bing search engine is nothing but a Google knock-off. To prove this Google did a simple test. Read more to find out what they found! Read more: Microsoft vs Google

Tags: Bing, Google, Microsoft, Search, Search Engines, Web search engine, Yusuf Mehdi | Posted under Mind of The Geek, Rumors | No Comments