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Google Driving Billions of Hits to Facebook, Other Social Networks

Google has become so synonymous with web browsing that most users see its search box as a replacement for the address bar. Topping the charts for the most searched terms of 2010, according to a new report from Experian Hitwise, are YouTube, Craigslist, and MySpace.READ»

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"Underdog" Bing Talks Facebook Partnership, Google Rivalry

"The larger you are, the more you have to worry about disrupting your user base," says Lisa Gurry, director of Bing. "For us, it's more about disrupting the existing search landscape to attract new users."READ»

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Digg Redesigns, Loses More Than a Quarter of Audience

Last night, social news aggregator Digg.com sent a message to its publisher community confessing that its recent site redesign had got off to a "bumpy start." That's a pleasant way of describing the huge backlash the service has ...READ»

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How Google Instant's New Rules Turn a Sneeze Into Ad Impressions

Analytics guru Dr. Sid Shah discusses how the search giant has quietly and massively changed the online ad game again--in favor of big brands. READ»

Twitter Users Don't Read the News, Do Share Photos and Socialize

Facebookers prefer broadcast media, while Googlers go for the dead-tree version--that was the upshot of some stats we posted earlier this month from Hitwise. Now analyst Heather Hopkins has added Twitter to her data to see where its ...READ»