U.K. gets Google Maps-powered property portal
Back in June Google announced that U.K. users of Google Maps would have the ability to map and search property listings and now that promise is delivered on with the launch of TheBigPropertyList.co.uk. Continue reading
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Google Maps starts showing property listings in U.K.
Implementing a plan announced last December, Google Maps will now list properties in the U.K. (as it already does in Australia and the U.S.).
Google loses share of search market, says ComScore
While still way out ahead of the search engine pack, Google’s 64.4 percent April share of market, as reported by ComScore, is considerably below it’s over-70-percent high throughout 2009. In June 2009 Google was reported having slightly more than 74 percent of the search market. The April figure represents a slight drop from the search giant’s 65.1 percent of March 2010 as well. Its YouTube actually lost 7 percent of share from the prior month.
Yahoo sites rose 0.8 percentage points to 17.7 percent, and Microsoft sites gained 0.1 percentage points to reach 11.8 percent of the search market. Both these groups have introduced new site navigation experiences tying content and related search results together. Ask Network captured 3.7 percent of the search market, and AoL LLC 2.4 percent.
Noteworthy gains and losses:
* Mapquest, part of the AoL LLC figure, gained 10 percent market share from March 2010
* Fox Interactive Media in general, and MySpace in particular both lost 23 percent share of search market in one month.
* While Microsoft sites gained 19 percent month over month, Bing actually lost one percent
Here’s the complete ComScore April 2010 report.
Facebook, Huff Post earn No. 1 spots, Google loses crown
Experian Hitwise just reported that Facebook climbed over Google’s back to take over the number one spot on the U.S. list of most visited Web sites for the week ending March 13. Facebook’s market share also increased by 185 percent from the same week in 2009. Google, in contrast, only jumped its visits YOY by 9 percent.
Taken together, 14 percent of all US-originating Internet visits went to one of these two massive online players.
Another interesting Hitwise report looked at how much Twitter, Facebook and Google News drove users to news and media Web sites. Twitter.com accounted for 0.14 percent , Facebook drove 3.65 percent, and Google News only delivered 1.27 percent. The Huffington Post got the most traffic from Twitter users who were looking for news and media sites. The next nine, from the highest-trafficked on down, were CNN.com, The New York Times, People Magazine, Google News, Drudge Report, Digg, The Weather Channel, MSNBC and Yahoo News.
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