July's comScore figures are in, and...
can it be? Has Google actually lost share of the search market to arch rival Yahoo!?
Blogs exploded with the apparent news, but Danny Sullivan helpfully stops by to calm...
people...
down. "Crisis for Google? Way, way too early to be saying stuff like that.
..I want to see several months of trending data from a particular player before I start issuing panic calls.
" Sullivan also cautions that we're only looking at one set of numbers - comScore's - and that figures are often revised. In other words, deep breath..
.exhale..
.links: It's the blame game - let's do Maureen! Given the uproar that resulted two weeks back when AOL published its users' personal search data, we figured it couldn't be long until a high mucky-muck over there stepped down or otherwise exited their employment.
Enter Reuters; they say today that CTO Maureen Govern has resigned, quoting an "internal company memorandum" (either that, or she was fired, which is what the Wall Street Journal reported). Govern headed the division that accidentally loosed the search data, and it appears that two other research employees share her fate.
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