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comScore, Inc. , a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In September 2009, Americans conducted 13.8 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 64.9 percent search market share. Microsoft Sites grabbed 9.4 percent market share, representing a slight gain versus August.

September 2009 U.S. Core Search Rankings

Google Sites led the U.S. core search market in September with 64.9 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! Sites (18.8 percent), and Microsoft Sites (9.4 percent). Ask Network captured 3.9 percent of the search market, followed by AOL LLC with 3.0 percent. Read the full story

According to comScore, Google’s U.S. market is approximately 65% even with the launch of Microsoft’s Bing. But is it really better than Bing or Yahoo? Is Twitter a search engine? Search3.com lets users compare and decide for themselves. Read the full story

The financial status of Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo Inc went down further in the end of 2007 and as a result, the company has planed to lay off 1,000 of its employees.

However, Yahoo has not informed which areas of expertise would be reduced. It should be noted that Yahoo chucked out 650 employees way back in 2000 during the dot-com break down.

Yahoo Inc earned $205.7 million, this would be a 15 cents per share, during 2007′s final three months, a 23 percent drop from net income of $268.7 million, or 19 cents per share, at the same time in 2006.

With these bad statistics on Yahoo, analysts has alerted investors to expect the worst. The pessimism prompted analysts, on average, to project earnings of 11 cents per share for the period.
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Some webmasters have noticed that Slurp (Yahoos Spider) is hitting their site for almost an hour with over 1000 requests, most of these referals from Overture Advertisements. However, its been reported that the PPCs are not being charged. However, rumours are that these might be some illicit IP addresses trying to gain income through PPCs. The Ips were from Inktomi.

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