- Google remains dominant leader over US search market Google remains the dominant search market share leader with 65.4% of all explicit searches in the US in February 2011, according to comScore qSearch analysis. Yahoo! came in second with 16.1% market share, Bing at 13.6%, Ask at 3.2%, and AOL at 1.7%. Explicit searches are those that reflect specific user intent to interact with the search results.
- Social search with Irish start-up HeyStaks HeyStaks, a University College Dublin (UCD) web start-up that allows people searching the web to collaborate with friends as they search online in a bid to increase productivity, have opened their service to the public.
- Google, Facebook, and Yahoo! commit to 24-hour IPv6 test flight Google, Facebook, and Yahoo!, along with the Internet Society, have joined forces and announced a 24-hour test flight for the next generation of the internet, IPv6, that they will all take part in on June 8th, 2011.
- Facebook second most popular platform to watch online video content According to comScore data released today for the month of August, Facebook is now the second most popular platform to watch online video content, narrowly overtaking Yahoo!