WordPress became the most popular self-hosted blogging platform with 72,285 of the top million sites on the Internet using it. At the moment there is no other CMS system, which could threaten its existence. So how and why has it become so successful? WordPress was launched in 2003 and almost immediately became a phenomenon. Since its premiere, its popularity was [...]

As we all know, China’s most popular search engine isn’t Google, it’s Baidu. Baidu was created in 2000 and at the beginning of 2010 it has about two-thirds of the Chinese market. It claims to be the most advanced Chinese-language search engine. Let’s look at some of the factors that contributed to Google’s failure in China (apart from well-known legal [...]

During the launch of Google Coffeine, Google search results page changed many times so did our eye tracking in universal search. Before launching the universal search system (which blends listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages) the way we used to track search (our reading pattern) resembled an [...]

Today comScore shared latest results of social media research. There was no surprise for general, continued traffic growth for social media throughout 2009 and the beginning of 2010. The research shows that Facebook and YouTube become leader in the ranking and the gap between both of them and the rest of the social media platforms (including Twitter) is growing widely: [...]