Comments on: Yahoo Powered by Bing

By: jtGraphic

jtGraphic — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:25:07 +0000

I’m really beginning to see some of the value in Bing. The features they announced at TED combined with some of the recent roll-outs have been phenomenal.

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:21:42 +0000

Wow – I would have never guessed Android was doing those numbers…

Also wouldn’t have guessed they berry lost market share. Thanks for the insight.

Wish I could make it to SMX West.

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:45:16 +0000

Im stealing a lot of this data from my upcoming SMX West presentation.

Comscore recently released the 2009 mobile data in http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/2/comScore_Reports_December_2009_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share

In the US 17% of phone are smartphones (up from 11% in 2008) & The iPhone has about 25% of the smartphone market.

The biggest gainer is Android which was at over 5% of the smartphone share before the Nexus One was released.

In total worldwide just over 25 million iPhones were sold to almost 8 million Android phones in 2009 – Android having a 1073% increase to its 2008 numbers – & already on pace to sell at least 22 million units this year.

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:57:44 +0000

You are the phone expert, but market share, iPhone must dominate (for now)? Do you know where the market share is at?

I am thinking andriod will step in because different manufacturers will start offering much cheaper phones. $600.00 for a phone is a lot of cash for the average person (who ends up losing or breaking their phone while on contract).

On a side note I am dying for a Blackberry with a good browswer.

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:59:53 +0000

Curious to Bing’s share as mobile becomes a greater factor since the iPhone will most likely default w Bing by the iPhone 4.0 announcement all the while there will be 100+ Android phones in 2010 available w Google being the obvious default.

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:43:43 +0000

Agreed – by late 2010 that’s near 40% of the exposure google can offer. Factor in some growth for Bing (when they become the default search engine for IE, Firefox, Safari) and win a a couple percent of people over by providing good results and it’s a market share worth targeting.

As far as SEO goes – you know I know I only worry about the basics I call you when I have a specific SEO question

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:05:41 +0000

Bing won’t power Yahoo search until late 2010 & the combined Ad management will be sent over to Microsoft adCenter around the same time….unless Ballmer has an update to that at SMX West.

SEO doesnt really change regardless…especially if you r gearing it toward Yahoo whose engine is getting phased out