The ComScore Figures for the state of search in January 2013 show Google making gains across practically every front.
As this post is being written we are on the build up to Christmas so it makes sense to have an early Christmas present for digital marketers active in Google Plus, in the form of Community Pages for Google Plussers.
Outside the English-speaking world Google’s dominance is reversed. In China, for instance, Baidu has the search market stitched up and in the Russian-speaking world search is dominated by Yandex and second-fiddle Mail.ru.
Google must be thinking it’s caught up in a timewarp where it’s doomed to go back into the past to fight different versions of the same battle.
Bloggers looking to make some extra cash from their content may soon be able to charge a small amount (from 25 – 99 cents) for the kind of content their readers may well want to pay to read.