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Compete Puts Overall Searches, Google Higher

According to new numbers from Compete, the search engines were busier than ever in November - Americans made a record 8.1 billion queries.  Also - you guessed it - Google’s market share went up.

Crank Dat! Truveo Searches Year's Top Videos

Soulja Boy, Tony Soprano, and Miss South Carolina all rated tops among the topics people sought out through Truveo's video search.

Microsoft Regionalizing Searches?

Microsoft seems to be regionalizing searches observes Woz on a thread on Webmasterworld.

UK Searches Show Love Of Christmas Markets

Know what a Christmas market is?  If you’re American, you might well not - Wikipedia lists only six of them for our country, while there are closer to 30 entries for Europe.  Still, that’s all the more reason to show interest in a new Hitwise report on the subject.

Ask Releases Top Searches Of 2007

We saw Yahoo’s, then Google gave us its list of top searches.  Now Ask is stepping up, and I’m happy to say that the term “Cars” was the sixth most popular query of 2007.

Celebs, Wrestling Top Yahoo Searches In 2007

Looking at the top searches on Yahoo for the year 2007, you might draw a few conclusions about what's foremost on America's conscience – and they might not be good conclusions.

Searches For Credit Cards Rise

With the holiday shopping season approaching, people want to buy presents.  An important part of buying things is paying for them, however, and so searches for credit cards are increasing.

Searches For Cheap Gas (Sort Of) Unite Society

Gas prices aren’t as bad now as they have been in the past, but they’re certainly not good.  And as usual, search trends have mirrored real-life events, and queries for “cheap gas” and the like have skyrocketed.

UK's First Site That Searches Both Google & Yahoo

Searchboth.co.uk is a new site that allows you to search both the Google and Yahoo search engine at the same time.

Live Search Team Improves Product Searches