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North Salem NY Real Estate | Bing Hits Record Search Share, Google Stays Stable

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Jul 15 2011

Bing Hits Record Search Share, Google Stays Stable

While the picture varies around the globe, the reality is that Google reigns supreme in almost every market. In fact, for those who have forgotten, Google is the main search engine in all but five countries that regularly access the internet. However, despite themonolithic size of Google, Bing and its partner Yahoo are making gains. Bing hit a record high in June, while Google remained stable.

That record high for Bing is 14.4 percent of market share – fairly impressive when you consider how young Bing is overall and that they only breached the 10 percent mark over the last year. This 14.4 percent market share combines with Yahoo’s 15.9 percent (about the same as Yahoo has held historically over the last couple years) to hit over 30 percent of the total market – up from about 20 percent last year and 25 percent at the end of 2010.

Still, despite the impressive gains, Google isn’t suffering. In fact, Google has remained stable or improved in each of its given search markets. Google holds at 65.5 percent of search share currently, and saw a rise in core search from 63.3 percent last month to 64.5 percent; “core search” includes all contextually-driven searches (which don’t indicate any actual intent to interact with search results) as well as standard searches.

So where is the Bing growth coming from? It seems that, rather than penetrating the fortress being held by Google, Bing is killing off the remaining competitors: Ask and AOL both remain strong in their core search site, but search sites networked to these companies saw an approximate 5 percent drop. Meanwhile, search activity on the whole has increased by about 8 percent over the last year.

[Sources include: comScore]

 

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Rob has been insatiably obsessed with Google, search engine technology, and the trends of the web-based world since he began life as a webmaster in 2002. His move into SEO work in 2006, and subsequently to writing for technology and internet-focused publications, has done nothing but fuel this passion.

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  • Interesting, i’m sure Bing will continue to increase its figures in the future. And a skyrocket due to an agreement with facebook to integrate bing as a search engine in the social network ?

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North Salem NY Real Estate | One World Music Show, Fun and Fitness – Bedford-Katonah, NY Patch

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1. Music show at Katonah Library

“One World” will be presented by Chris Merwin today at 2 p.m., a show for all ages. This is a multi-cultural music show with unusual instruments form all over the world. It’s billed as “fun, educational and fully interactive, making it perfect for children ages 3 and up.” Free tickets are available in the library, call 232-1233 for details.

2. Scrabble in Bedford and Lewisboro

It’s a scrabble-extravaganza around town today, with the Bedford Free Library’s mini-scrabble club meeting and a family tournament at the Lewisboro Library. Click on the links for details.

3. It’s National Blueberry Month

We’re so fortunate to have farmer’s markets and U-Pick farms closeby. Check out our farmer’s market vendor series and our story on where to pick berries for details on where to pick up your summer berries.

4. Haven’t been to the gym or don’t belong?

Get back into the swing of fitness by joining this high-low aerobics class, taught by Paula DiJulio, which is geared to adults who may not be exercising regularly and would like to begin a healthy program. All you need to do is registor (click here for details) and bring a mat or large towel.

5. A year ago on Patch

We covered the Veg Out garden tour, hosted by the Bedford Garden Club, which featured a walking tour of ten local gardens and an expo at the John Jay Homestead. For more on this club, which recently celebrated its 100th birthday, visit their website—they’ve got some great gardening tips too, such as a recipe on how to rid your houseplants of whiteflies.

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North Salem NY Homes | DWTS Co-Host Brooke Burke Lists Malibu Home For $12.5 Million | North Salem NY Celebrity Real Estate

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Who says you can’t experience the south of France in California?

Dancing with the Stars host Brooke Burke and David Charvet’s home, aptly named Chateau Charvet, was designed to evoke a house in the south of France, where Charvet was born.

According to the LA Times, the home is listed for sale on the Malibu real estate market for $12,500,000—property listing information shows it as an 880 percent price increase from when the land was sold to Charvet in 1998. The chateau-like estate was built in 2007.

Both Burke and Charvet got their start in modeling. Burke currently co-hosts of the show “Dancing with the Stars,” a role she took after winning the TV competition in 2007. Charvet is best known for his roles on “Baywatch” and “Melrose Place.”

The home for sale is located in the exclusive celebrity enclave of Serra Retreat, where Mel Gibson and Kelsey Grammar own homes. Although these houses don’t have views of the water like ones found in the Malibu colony, many of them have larger property lines and enjoy greater privacy. Current median Malibu home values are at $1,531,700.

The 5-bedroom, 4.5 bath home owned by Burke and Charbet has 6,769 square feet of living space and plenty of details that help the property live up to its chateau title. The driveway, made of with individually placed old stones, leads to a sculptured courtyard with 18th century fountain at its center. Inside, the home has antique hand plastered walls, hand carved limestone and walnut flooring, as well as imported French fireplaces, hand sculpted doors and inlaid ceiling details. The home also features a hidden screening room, a 4,000-bottle wine cellar with Chateau Margaux barrels inset in the wall, a wood paneled office, large bonus lower level room and a “woman’s off season closet.”

Outside, the home has a pool, outdoor dining area, and 200 bush rose garden.

The listing is held by Susan Monus of Coldwell Banker.

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North Salem NY Homes gives Cheers to Summertime: The Perfect Summer Cocktails – Bedford-Katonah, NY Patch

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It’s summer time and the living is easy.  This time of year was made for slowing down, for kicking back with friends, and of course for sipping ice-cold summer cocktails.

For this week’s Patch Picks, we stopped into some local restaurants and bars in search of the perfect summer cocktails.  Some were spicy and sweet, others tangy and light—all delivered the perfect sip for a hot summer’s day.

Want to try some at home? Check out the recipes below, shared by Pour owner Anthony Colasacco.

Pour Café & Wine Bar’s Kisco Summer Cocktail and Golden Rose Cocktail

The aptly named Kisco Summer, which is made with lavender (syrup) and violet (Crème de Violette), and served up in a cocktail glass garnished with cucumber, really does tastes like refreshing glass of summertime.

If you’re in the mood for a beer cocktail, definitely try Pour’s Golden Rose beer cocktail.  Made of Captain Lawrence Golden Delicious beer and apple jack, this is a light, refreshing summer drink.

Willy Nicks Blueberry Lemonade and Peach Iced Tea

This established Katonah restaurant takes advantage of summer’s bounty, incorporating fresh berries and herbs into two of its top cool cocktails. The blueberry lemondade is a mix of Stoli blueberry vodka and lemonade infused with just a drop of blue curacao for color, topped with a handful of blueberries and garnished with a slice of lemon.

Mint lovers should order the iced tea, which combines Absolut peach vodka with simple sugar and a generous handful of crushed mint, also garnished with a lemon. Front porch swing not included.

Village Social’s Cantaloop Cocktail

Although some summer cocktails are too sweet and fruity for the manly-man, Village Social has the perfect unisex drink.  Made of Herradura Silver Tequila, Cantaloupe, serrano chili peppers, and black pepper, the Cantaloop is spicy, just the right amount of sweet, and refreshingly delicious.

353 Restaurant’s Pomegranate Martini

Since the pomegranate has become the “it” fruit, we would be remiss if we didn’t include at least one pomegranate-themed summer drink.  Our favorite, 353’s Pomegranate Martini, is made of the ever-popular pomegranate juice, raspberry vodka, and triple sec.  This martini is light and sweet, full of anti-oxidants and still manages to pack a powerful punch!

Recipes

Kisco Summer

2oz. Berkshire Ethereal Gin

3/4 oz. Royal Rose Lavender Syrup

1/2 oz. Crème de Violette

1/2 oz. Lemon Juice

Golden Rose

4oz. Captain Lawrence Golden Delicious beer

1/2 oz. lemon juice

3/4 oz. Royal Rose Tamarind Syrup,

1 oz. Domaine De Canton,

1/2 oz. apple jack

build over ice and top with ginger beer

Patch editor Lisa Buchman contributed to this report.

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North Salem Real Estate looks at New Google Analytics: Improvements in Map Overlay reports for North Salem NY homes

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New Google Analytics: Improvements in Map Overlay reports

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This is part of our series of posts highlighting the new Google Analytics. The new version of Google Analytics is currently available in beta to all Analytics users. And follow Google Analytics on Twitter for the latest updates. This week, a few engineers from our team are sharing improvements they’ve made to Map Overlay reports.
In GA, we’re always looking for ways to improve existing reports. For example, we noticed that you can only see state (i.e. province/region) breakdowns if you’re looking at the United States. Surely, this information ought to be available for other parts of the world?!
It seemed like something that could be done in a short amount of time and yield a big win for our users. So, we’re glad to announce that as of this week’s release, you can now see region level maps of over 170 countries!
To try it out, simply go to the Location report (under Visitors > Demographics) and click a country. We’ll try France:
Voila! We can see at a glance that Ile-de-France sends the most visits to our site. To see cities, just click City in the Viewing: list immediately below the map. Once you’re on the cities view, you can try out another feature we rolled out recently — a magnifying glass that appears when cities are clustered closely together.
Enjoy the new features in your maps. We hope they speed you on your way to gaining actionable insights and metrics. Happy analyzing!
P.S. Did you know you get map overlay in more places than just the Visitors > Demographics > Location report? Take a look at the tab on the Visitors > Technology > Mobile report
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