The latest search share report (qSearch analysis) by ComScore presented no major surprises, with search engine giant Google forging further ahead, and would-be competitors falling further behind. Overall, search continued its remarkable growth, increasing over 11 percent from May 2006.

The next improvements to search marketing could come from Yahoo Research, where scientists look for all the meanings to be found in data.

Would it surprise you to know that Google has dedicated less and less attention to “search” over the years?  Conversely, the company’s talking more about “revenue.”  These, anyway, are the conclusions that one might draw using Philipp Lenssen’s Google Press Release Analyzer.

Privacy International chose to label Google as with the worst privacy rating of any of the twenty-three companies they examined in their report on privacy for Internet service companies.

I think that at least some of the reasoning behind PI’s rating is found in their statement:

Search engine optimization is misunderstood and despised by those who have had consistently failed at using it, or have been repeatedly beaten by those who were successful with it.

Don Dodge, who works at Microsoft, offers up some interesting analysis of Google and Microsoft’s acquisition strategy. Not saying I agree with it, but it does make for fun Sunday-morning reading.