Today’s Tidbits - 20 August 2006

comScore Networks reports that in June 2006, Google gained 44.7 percent of online search share, which is a 0.5 percent increase from 44.2 percent last month. Yahoo! also increase their share, albeit slower from 28.0 percent to 28.5 percent. MSN dropped from 13.1 percent to 12.8 percent.

Thanks Google, the number of profiles for each account had been increased from 5 to 10. Nice. But I need more, please. If you want an account, here is the good news. Google Analytics has finally opened its doors to all.

Kanoodle has expanded their business to include domain registration by acquiring a domain registrar. The existing paid search will still live under Kanoodle brand, but the content-targeted sponsored links business will move to Pulse 360.

A quick update on Google AdWords, scheduled reports now begin running at 1am in the local time zone you set for your AdWords account. For those using an MCC account, scheduled MCC reports begin running at 5am, local time zone of your MCC account. For those who didn’t adjust local time zone, reports will continue to run just as they have in the past, in Pacific Time.

HitWise reported that Google has just crossed the 60% barrier, increasing its share from 59.3 percent to 60.2 percent, almost triple that of their nearest competitor. Yahoo! has increased from 22.2% to 22.5% while MSN Search has decreased from 12.1% to 11.8%.

Microsoft’s adCenter now serves all of the paid search traffic on Microsoft online properties in the UK. They include MSN Search and Windows Live Search. At the same time the deal with Yahoo!’s Search Marketing in Britain has been terminated.

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