Search Engine Optimization

Hitwise released a search engine market share report and has some very positive news for Google. According to the report Google rose to 72.39% while Yahoo and Live Search declined.

Hitwise also has some good news for Ask.com, which rose from 3.74% in February to 4.07% in March.

Apart from search engine market data, Hitwise reports that search queries are getting longer, while 1 – 2 are used less every day.

• 7- and 8-word queries both saw double digit percent increases

It’ll be interesting to see if Google’s recent rollout of local results on non-local queries will impact this trend. The change affects shorter queries the most, and many searchers are now likely to find what they want with short queries like “florists,” “restaurants,” and “lawyers.”

http://searchengineland.com/hitwise-googles-lead-growing-searches-getting-longer-17263