A Week or so of Tweets …
- Great post and pyramid image on the ‘SEO Hierarchy of Needs’ from Virginia Nussey at Bruce Clay Inc.
- comScore: 113.6 billion searches were conducted in July 2009, up 41% over July 2008.
- StatCounter: In August, Bing/Yahoo slip to 20.14% share of U.S. market as Google rises to 77.83%.
- StatCounter browser marketshare: IE 59%, Firefox 31%, Chrome 3.4%, Safari 3.2%, Opera 2.7%, others 0.70%.
- Wall Street Journal: Of Wikipedia contributors, 19% have a Master’s, 4.4% Ph.D., 13% are women. Men have that much more free time?
- ‘Will Wikipedia ever be legitimate?’ asks Chris Dawson at ZDNet. Teach our kids to be critical readers, he says.
- Lots of chatter about, “(Senate) Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet.” Via cnet News.
- ’9 Problems With Paid Search, 9 Real Tactics To Solve Them’ from Josh Dreller at Search Engine Land.
- ‘Be Careful in the Social Media Jungle.’ Our Group 3 Solutions blog on recent online missteps.
- Greg Jarboe: comScore reports 12.9 billion total searches in July: Google 9.2B (YouTube 3.6B of those), Yahoo 2.7B, Bing 1.0B.
- Yahoo’s new video search is worth checking out. Offers in-line playing on some videos, embedded related videos.
- Mossberg: Apple’s Snow Leopard not ‘lust-worthy’ but ‘makes a strong operating system a little faster, smoother.’
- Funny anti-Twitter (via Wall Street Journal Digits): ‘Macroblogging’ site Woofer encourages verbose Woofs. Avg. 57,000 characters
Previous Twitter round-ups are here and here. Follow us at Twitter.com/Group3Solutions.
I love this Tweet round-up format. Really saves time when I’m trying to go back and find something you mentioned in previous Tweets. =)