Odnoklassniki.ru Reaches 20 Million Users

August 12th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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Update: When comScore reports that Facebook is the fastest growing social network in the world, it forgets to take into account data for Russia-originated social networks Odnoklassniki.ru and Vkontakte. In fact, the fastest growing social network in the world is Odnoklassniki.ru. Its number of users has grown from 1.2 million in June 2007 to 20 million one year later.

The leading Russian social networking site, Odnoklassniki.ru, has reached over 20 million registered accounts and over 6 million daily users. The company generated revenues of $3.3 million in Q1 2008. The site reported 29.2 million unique visitors in May 2008.

In addition to header and sidebar banner advertising, the site now offers to display a text advertisement including an icon and text hyperlink below a user profile (see screenshot). The CPM is $0.5.

Its major competitors, Vkontakte, and Mail.ru’s social network MoiMir (MyWorld) have 15.7 million and 20 million registered accounts, respectively. Vkontakte only recently started selling display advertisements on the site via Media Plus sales house.

By reaching this milestone, Odnoklassniki.ru is catching up by audience with the Russian web leaders, Yandex, Mail.ru, and Rambler, in just two years after launch.

Source: Quintura blog

iMedix Joins the Parade – Literally

August 12th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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לפניכם שני תמונות. עליך לנחש מה משותף ביניהם. התיאשת? גם אני. שני הזוגות נראות שונות לגמרי—ודרך אגב, אין לי מושג איך אופרה עדיין נראית בדיוק כמו אישה בתחילת שנות השלושים שלה למרות שהיא כבר בת 54. קצת מפחיד כבר. תזדקני! אני כבר מזדקן ואני רק בן 24. שערות אפרוות בזקן וכד’.

As this is the limit of my willingness to venture into high-level writing in a second language, I will now go back to English. Before you are two pictures. It’s up to you to guess what they have in common.

Give up? I do, too. Both of the couples look completely different from the other—and by the way, I have no Idea how Oprah sill looks exactly like a women in her early thirties even though she’s already 54. A bit frightening at this point. Age already! I’m aging and I’m only 24. Grey hairs in the beard and such.

Since we both give up, I’ll just come out and say it. The two guys on the bottom, Amir Leitersdorf and Iri Amirav, are the founders of iMedix, a community-powered health search engine that has now been selected to power the search capabilities of PARADE.com’s health section. Thankfully, this has little to do with Oprah herself. She just happens to be on the cover

This is real good news for the iMedix team, as it’s the first major media partnership for them and the first search engine technology to be embedded at PARADE.com. Not only that, but PARADE Magazine has the largest circulation of any magazine in the United States. A copy came every week in my Sunday Herald when I lived in Miami, and I didn’t even tell the Herald to do that for me, so I know this is not an exaggeration.

In simple language, this means that iMedix is now part of the biggest Magazine in the US, and if you want to do a health search with Parade, you get to use iMedix. Here’s the proof:

“We are thrilled to be the exclusive search partner for the health section at PARADE.com. Millions of visitors will now have access to the most relevant, reliable health information on the Web and have the opportunity to discuss health concerns with like-minded individuals,” said Leitersdorf. For more information on iMedix, as well as other Israeli alternative search engines, click here.

And here’s a new feature iMedix put up on its site just a bit over 2 weeks ago—a health question/answer widget. Since iMedix is a community-based health site, you can contact any member of the community for advice on any health problem. Their new feature now lets you post questions directly to the community and get answers. You become a member, post a question, and then log in and click on the “my questions and answers” link to see what you’ve got. You can also answer questions relating to your own expertise and add to community knowledge.

Sound good?

Hear Ye! Over Here Ye! Is anybody listening?

August 12th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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NEW YORK, NY – August 12, 2008 -  Google accounted for 70.77 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending July 26, 2008, Hitwise announced today. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 18.65, 5.36 and 3.53 percent respectively. The remaining 47 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.69 percent of U.S. searches.

1. Google did not really increase last month.

Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask DECREASED.

2. Who are these 47 “remaining engines?”

We have written Hitwise requesting their list.

3. Those 47, plus a few hundred more, account for 1.69% of all U.S. searches.

When I started the Top 100 Alt Search Engines list in 2006, it was about, um, 1.69%.

4. Yes, you can get bought for a bizillion dollars, but how do you get 4.00% and pass Ask?

If 1% of the U.S. Search Market is worth $1 Billion (est.), why settle for $100 million?

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Virtual Worlds 40 virtuele werelden in 7 minuten

August 12th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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AltSearchEngines institutes new Open Door policy

August 12th, 2008 by Charles S. Knight
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