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Google and AOL are up while Yahoo!, Bing and Ask.com are down from November in Nielsen's December 2009 search rankings. But let's face it, AOL is fueled by Google, so pretty much all of the gains belong to Google.

NOV. 2009 STATS:

The bottom line is that as always Google gets the lions share of the traffic.  Yet both Yahoo and Bing get a fair share of traffic and can't be totally overlooked.   Yet if want to promote your site, Google is the key, both organically and using their pay per click Adwords program.

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Here is the weird Bing comment for the day. Brett Yount, the Program
Manager at Bing Webmaster Center, told webmasters to submit their site
to Digg or Yahoo Buzz to help get their pages indexed.

A Bing Forums thread has Brett saying, and I quote:

If your site pages have good content, submit them to buzz and digg. Both have a high chance of getting your page indexed.

Of course this makes sense. Get a link from a popular site and a
search engine will find that link and hopefully index your site/pages
afterwards. But I just find it weird that a search representative would
specifically name Digg and/or Buzz. I mean, why not mention something
else or just talk about the concept in general. Brett could have said,
to get your pages indexed quicker, make sure to get links from sites we
crawl on a frequent basis.

This is strange for him to say that but a good tip for everyone.

Source: SEO Roundtable

Yesterday comScore reported
search numbers for August. What they show is growth in overall search
volume, including at Google sites (except YouTube). Google has 2.5
times the search volume as Yahoo and Microsoft combined. But
Microsoft’s Bing also grew its share of the overall US search market
from 8.9 percent in July to 9.3 percent in August. Here are the charts:

In the “expanded view” of search, what stands out are the following:

• Search volume declines at eBay, AOL and MySpace
• Growth at Bing/Microsoft and dramatic growth at Facebook (20 percent vs. July)

Bing is for real and moving up the charts but they are still a small player compared to Google. Facebook made a 20% jump which is pretty big.

comScore has released their search market share rankings for July 2009 and Bing continues to gain share. In June,
they gained 0.4% share and last month, they gained 0.5% share.

Google and Yahoo! are the losers, both losing 0.3% in share last month. Ask and AOL held steady with no gains or losses.

Bing was also the only search to grow its total search queries in
July 2009. This also happened in June, when Bing was the only one to
gain. Bing saw 3% gains in search queries in June, followed by a 2%
increase in July for a total of 5% increase in just two months.

Meanwhile, YouTube's growth slowed last month to just 1%. YouTube
has been on quite a tear recently and experienced a whopping 7% growth
in June. The JK Wedding Dance video was huge in July, so perhaps
they're reaching market saturation.