Google accounted for 64.1% of U.S. search traffic in March, according to traffic tracker Hitwise.
The punchline: warm weather is good for search traffic, but dry weather helps, too.
No other candidate matched even half of growth in search traffic in the same time frame.
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But neither company is catching enough of lucrative search traffic they need to keep up with Google.
But search traffic on Trulia suggests that migration out of California might be gearing up again.
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Next month, February, is the top month for search traffic in Florida.
Home sellers looking for the most buyers should list when search traffic peaks.
On Tuesday, Baidu chief executive, Robin Li, said the firms mobile search traffic was growing at triple digit rates.
Maine, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, and Ohio have the largest changes in search traffic throughout the year.
In the last week, Santorum search traffic has increased by 262% in Colorado, 515% in Minnesota, and 386% in Missouri.
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Yandex says it accounts for 64% of all search traffic in Russia and is the largest Russian-based internet company by revenue.
In every month from March through July, all (or all but one) states are above their annual average in search traffic.
In October, Credit Suisse downgraded the company's outlook over concerns about how it would make money from its mobile search traffic.
However, if you have 10, 000 pages, and only your home page is getting organic search traffic, you have a big problem.
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In contrast, search traffic fluctuates least over the year in Alaska, the District of Columbia, Vermont, Hawaii, and Idaho.
To date, Google derives 15 percent of its search traffic from mobile, but just 3 percent of that translates into revenue, the analyst found.
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Google also tracked the spikes in search traffic throughout the evening.
"Half our search traffic is outside the United States, " he said.
However, the power Google holds over recipients of its organic search traffic and competing ad networks is much larger than most in the industry are aware.
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Unlike many internet-based businesses that have a marketing strategy to capture generic search traffic, my business is meant to be the basis for a unique brand.
Phone a few months ago to provide pre-installed Yahoo services such as Yahoo Japan Home, Yahoo Japan Auctions and Yahoo Loco to improve its search traffic.
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The company says it generated 64% of search traffic in Russia in 2010 and it is the largest Russian Internet company in terms of revenue.
Now that they lost that real estate, Google, if it wanted the search traffic, really had to up their game on the maps app and do it quickly.
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This not only puts Facebook in competition for search traffic with Google, it also steps up their competition for traffic that now goes to testimonial sites like Yelp.
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Nate Silver, a polling guru, notes that her search traffic on Google is 16 times that of Mitt Romney, 14 times Newt Gingrich's and 87 times Tim Pawlenty's.
That could cause Google to lose even more search traffic to Amazon as consumers realize that Google Shopping does not provide a truly useful way to compare product options.
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There are some automated valuation tools on the web like valuate.com and estibot.com that use search traffic, backlinks, and other data to appraise the value in the domain name.
As noted by StreetInsider, Hellawell wrote in a research report that his channel checks found that Baidu has lost 4-8 percentage points of search traffic since Qihoo entered the market on August 16.
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