It happened

This is an actual un-edited screen capture(aside from clone-stamping the total views out) from Google Analytics showing that for FunnyNameMedia.Com, I get more traffic from Bing than from Google. Very interesting...

-Trent

Is Bing gaining traction?

The almighty Google dominates searches, we've known that for awhile, but I have seen an interesting trend in my site analytics across all my websites...Bing is becoming much more prevalent. Google usually accounted for about 75% of my search engine traffic, Bing/MSN was maybe 5%. That's changing...in a big way. Bing now accounts for as much as 30% of my search engine traffic on some sites and consistently 20%+. Google has suffered some as a result, but it seems most of it's traction is gained from the other search engines. Either way, this is a bit surprising and curious. Have you experienced the same on your sites?

-Trent

Don't use Google?

Mashable has an interesting article about a Mozilla executive that wants users to switch their default search engine from Google to Bing. Why would he do this? Privacy Policy. Bing has a stronger privacy policy and Google's Eric Schmidt made light of the policy in saying that if you don't want people to see what you're searching, you shouldn't be searching it. What are your feelings about this situation?

Link to original article:
http://bit.ly/5jsAVa


-Trent
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The Search War has begun

Things become old news quickly, and unfortunately I tend to write my blogs 1-2 days in advance. When the mood hits, I gotta write. Anyway, Bing announced it will now include Facebook status updates and Twitter 'Tweets". Soon after, Google announced it will include Tweets as well. This changes a lot! I've been following Google Caffeine for awhile because it planned to integrate more Twitter updates, so I'm kind of prepared, but you better believe I'm convincing every client from now on that they are using Twitter for part of their SEO needs.

-Trent