iPhone Still Top Smartphone
Web usage numbers are tricky; every researcher has a different set of data, and often they disagree. For example, our network shows that the iPhone is still the top smartphone in North America.
The Google/Bing Search Bar Brouhaha
Google accuses Bing of using IE to steal their search results. Bing accuses Google of stealing their search innovations. Now, there’s some info as to whether Google is doing what they accused Microsoft of doing, but on a smaller scale. Confused?
Chrome OS: A Viable Desktop Operating System?
Today at the Mobile World Conference, covered by Matt Rosoff at Business Insider, Google CEO Eric Schmidt revealed details of the future of Android, and also about the Operating System fragmentation strategy employed by Google. Also briefly mentioned within Rosoff’s article, as well as Rob…
Android Devices: Evo and Droid Rule, 4G Coming Strong
Android is coming on strong, and the mobile OS by Google appears to be dragging mobile Internet usage into the 4G world. We break down the top Android handsets by traffic share across the Chitika network in early November, 2010.
Top Two iPhone Search Engines: Both Google
After our panel at SMX East revealed Google’s dominance in the mobile search market, we decided to look into the sources of their traffic. The Google App by itself can stand as the 2nd biggest iPhone search engine. As seen in Search Engine Land and ReadWriteWeb. Good information for all those using the new Chitika Mobile Ads.
July Search Stats – Yahoo! Up, Bing and Google Down
Chitika Research’s July 2010 search engine market share report, including data spanning all of 2010. Of the big three search engines, only Yahoo! saw an increase in their market share, while both Bing and Google saw minor losses. As cited in Business Insider, Search Engine Land, and WebProNews
Firefox 2nd Most Influential Player in Search
Firefox appears to hold a lot of the cards in the search engine market share game. We looked at what percentage of search traffic coming into our network came from Firefox’s deal with Google – specifically, the Firefox start page and little embedded Google bar – and found that Firefox’s default search engine controls more of the search market than anyone besides Google themselves. Bidding war, begin! As seen in ReadWriteWeb
Search Market Share – Yahoo and Bing Legitimately Up Big
Despite some controversy over Yahoo!’s “gaming” the search market share numbers, according to our traffic data, both Yahoo! and Bing are legitimately growing – and fast – in 2010. As seen in Search Engine Land
Finalists chosen for Chitika + Adsense Contest
We received hundreds of submissions for our AdSense + Chitika Ad Placement Contest this year, thank you to all who entered! This year we have decided to narrow it down to 8 finalists and have you vote for our grand prize winner who will receive…