Punctuation Search Results Upgraded By Google!

In a fresh upgrade involving punctuation marks, Google has updated its search results. So, now when you search for a “;” as in semicolon, you will now get search results. While some of the results are relevant, some may be not (the search for “/” slash reveals a music band with the same name on top). Here is what the search for “!” reveals:

This was reported by Google Operating System that Google was showing results for some punctuation symbols, as opposed to earlier, where it did not index them. Now you can see results for symbols/punctuation marks like:

1. [.]- Full Stop
2. [,]- Comma
3. [:]- Colon
4. [;]- Semicolon
5. [#]- Hash
6. [%]- Percent
7. [@]- At
8. [^]- Carat
9. [)]- Brackets
10. [~]- Tilde
11. [|]- Vertical Bar
12. ["]- Quotes
13. [<] Less than/Greater Than
14. [$]- Dollar symbol
15. [!]- Exclamation Mark
16. [‘]- Apostrophe
17. [&]- Ampersand
18. [ _ ]- Underscore
19. [-]-  Minus sign
20. [+]-  Plus sign
21. [=]-  Equals sign

Do these searches for yourself and see.

How Google Made Money In 2011- Infographic!

Wordstream has put together an insightful infographic showing how Google earned a substantial $37.9 Billion in 2011 Advertising Revenues. The research was done by WordStream independently and is a follow up of the Google’s announcement of a “disappointing” 2011 Earnings.

© WordStream, a Google AdWords partner company.

Jerry Yang Exits Yahoo!

Yahoo’s! co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang has stepped down from the company’s board. He announced his exit on Tuesday as he also gave up his posts on the boards of Yahoo Japan Corp. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

His departure news was made public in a press release. He wrote a letter and we quote, “My time at Yahoo!, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life. However, the time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo! As I leave the company I co-founded nearly 17 years ago, I am enthusiastic about the appointment of Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Officer and his ability, along with the entire Yahoo! leadership team, to guide Yahoo! into an exciting and successful future.”

Industry experts believe that Yang left the company he co-founded in 1995, as a result of the shareholders pressure. It is known that Yang was criticized by shareholders since he had thwarted Microsoft's unsolicited takeover bid in 2008, while he was serving as the CEO of Yahoo. Yahoo's stock soared 4% on the news in after-hours trading Tuesday.

Yang’s departure comes two weeks Scott Thompson took over as Yahoo’s new CEO. Prior to this Thompson was the former president of PayPal. Thompson is now heading Yahoo’s efforts to compete with Google and Facebook as well as get more revenues for the company. Thompson was hired three months after the ouster Carol Bartz who served as CEO for 30 months.

Jerry Yang, the former Chief Yahoo!, served on the company’s board since March 1995. At present he owns a 3.6 percent stake in the company. He served as Yahoo’s! CEO from 2007 to 2009, where he had to step down following the Yahoo-Microsoft fiasco.

Source: http://www.pagetrafficbuzz.com/jerry-yang-exits-yahoo/13065/

Bing Ousts Yahoo!, Takes The No 2 Position In December 2011-comScore Reports!

Bing is the second most popular search engine in the US (finally!), pushing Yahoo! to the third spot.

The number one position is held by Google (no surprises there) as revealed by comScore’s latest figures. At present Bing has a 15.1% market share in the United States, a gradual increase from its humble beginnings in June 2009 with an 8.4 percent market share.

Bing is in the second position behind Google with 65.9 percent market share in December 2011, while the third place goes to Yahoo! which dropped to the third position on the US. According to comScore, here are the search engines listed by their ranks as well as market share in December 2011:

• Google with a 65.9 percent share is comfortably on the top with an increase in the market share up from 65.4 percent in November. 12 billion of the total searches were conducted on Google.
  
• Bing rose to the second spot with a .1 percent increase from November, to reach at the present 15.1% market share in the United States. 2.7 billion of the total searches were conducted on Bing.
  
• Yahoo! takes the third position with a lower share of 14.5 percent as compared to the earlier 15.1 percent. 2.6 billion of the total searches were conducted on Yahoo!.
  
• Ask came up 4th again at 2.9 percent market share with a total of 531 million searches.
  
• AOL remained at 1.6 percent market share and powered 26.5 percent of searches.
  

The search numbers have also escalated in the month of December 2011 as 18.2 billion core searches were conducted in December, figure 2% more than the search numbers of November 2011.

Source: http://www.pagetrafficbuzz.com/bing-ousts-yahoo-takes-2-position-december-2011comscore-reports/13061/