By: Loren Baker | Source: searchenginejournal.com

A recent study by Hitwise shows that Yahoo Answers is dominating the Answers Search Market Share by attracting 96.1% of the share of answers sites visits.

Hitwise says that the infosearch Demand Media owned Answerbad is 2nd, with 2% of the share and Windows Live QnA is ranked third, with 1%.

* For the week ending 12/23/06, it ranked as the 100th most visited domain among the 500,000+ websites tracked by Hitwise. It ranked as the #2 site in the Education - Reference category, receiving about 1/5 of the share of visits to the #1 site, Wikipedia

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By: Ionut Alex | Source: googlesystem.blogspot.com

I’ve heard many inaccurate things about Google this year, and most of them are spread by word of mouth. Maybe Google should do a better job at explaining things that may seem trivial to computer experts, but difficult understand for other people.

1. Google Desktop indexes your files and uploads the index to Google servers.

No. Google stores the index on your computer. If you enable a feature called "search across computers", Google will securely send copies of your indexed files to Google servers. The feature is disabled by default.

2. Gmail indexes your emails and makes them available for everyone. (Darbacour)

No. Google indexes your messages so you can search them. This feature is now available in other webmail applications (Yahoo Mail, Windows Live Mail). Google doesn’t make your messages or the indexes public.

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By: LeeAnn Prescott | Source: weblogs.hitwise.com

When Google Blog Search launched last year, I wondered if it would surpass Technorati in market share of visits. This week Hitwise data show that the market share of visits to Google Blog Search surpassed visits to Technorati for the week ending 12/23/06. Google Blog Search began catching up to Technorati in October, when Google placed a link to Blog Search on the Google News home page, causing a 168% surge in market share for Google Blog Search over a two week period (week ending 10/14/06 vs. week ending 10/28/06). Since then, approximately 60% of Google Blog Search’s traffic has been coming directly from Google News, compared to less than 1% before the change. Blogger Blog Search has been receiving about the same amount of traffic as Technorati, although it has dropped since Google Blog Search took off. Sphere, another blog search service, is still small, but growing.

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