The Alexa What’s Hot feature was just officially turned off today. If you now go to www.alexa.com/whatshot you’ll be redirected to a support article on the site: [Read more…]
3 Things To Do Today for Safer Internet Day
Today, Tuesday, February 9th, is Safer Internet Day. I honestly didn’t realize that it was Safer Internet Day yet, until a friend of mine posted about Google giving us 2 extra GB of data in our Google Drive accounts. If you do a quick 2 minute security check of your Google Account, Google will reward you with extra storage space (which they normally charge for). There are, in fact, other things that you can do today, as well, for internet security. Here are three things that you can do right now, today, that will make the internet safer for you and for all of us. [Read more…]
Two New gTLD Domains Show Up in Alexa What’s Hot
One of the things that I monitor on a regular basis is the Alexa What’s Hot (on the web), formerly called the Alexa Hot URLs. In order to be on that list (that’s updated every five minutes or so), the site has to have a LOT of traffic going to it. So, when I looked at the list of top 20 URLs on the web in terms of traffic, I was surprised to see two new gTLD domain names there on the list. While I’m surprised that this is the first time I’ve seen new gTLD domains there, I’m not surprised that they are .CLUB domains.
The two sites are DatingAdvices.Club and HomeFitnessBeauty.Club. Unfortunately, looking at these particular names, though, it appears that they’re most likely on the list of Alexa What’s Hot URLs because they’re doing something nefarious with the traffic or doing something that isn’t “natural”. [Read more…]
Search Engine Rankings for January 2014: Search Queries up 8 Percent
Every month about this time comScore releases its search engine market share data for the previous month. I try to cover this every month, and report the search engine rankings. During January 2014, Google continued their reign in the search engine market with 67.6 percent the market share. Microsoft had 18.3 percent, and Yahoo! with 10.4 percent. Here’s some more detail:
Search Engine Market Share for December 2013
Every month about this time, comScore releases their data for the search engine market share for the previous month. Google’s search engine market share rose .6 percent during December 2013. Google’s search engine market share is 67.3 percent, Microsoft (Bing) went up .1 percent to 18.2 percent, Yahoo! had 10.8 percent, Ask Network had 2.5 percent, and AOL had 1.3 percent. [Read more…]
November 2013 Search Engine Rankings Released, Google Loses Market Share
comScore has released its monthly search engine rankings, the numbers that detail the search engine market share. Google now has 66.7 percent of the market share for searches, followed by Microsoft (Bing) with 18.1 percent, and Yahoo! with 11.2 percent. Ask.com is down to 2.6 percent and AOL now has only 1.4 percent of the market share for searches. [Read more…]