Keep in mind: recruiters and employers are using
search engine queries about potential hires more and more frequently.
Not exact matches
Although Google may lead the way in the race of
search engines, depending what source you reference, NetMarketShare claims they control
about 71 %, while DMR Stats cites a 75 % share of the world
search engine queries.
Here's the thing: Google handles
about 67 % of all
search engine queries every month according to comScore's August 2013 Search Engines Ranking r
search engine queries every month according to comScore's August 2013
Search Engines Ranking r
Search Engines Ranking report.
Of the top six, only ONE (Ron Paul,
about whom I wrote this weekend) is legitimate — the others must be intended to get me to run that
query in a
search engine to see why my site shows up.
In fact every day,
about 20 % of the total
search engine queries are completely unique terms that have never been
searched before.
The other interesting fact
about point 2 (if you read the fine print) is your profile may appear in
search engine queries.
Major
search engines will produce hundreds of thousands of hits in response to
queries about the availability of dogs, cats, ferrets, reptiles, fish and other pets for sale.
In our view, there is a significant difference between making court and tribunal decisions available online so that they are accessible to those who wish to consult past precedents and hold decision - makers accountable, and making those decisions — and their contents — indexable by popular
search engines and available to anyone simply
querying about another individual.
According to Huffington Post, as people
searched for information on Irwin's daughter (her new movie Return to Nim's Island was released on DVD May 21),
search engines matched up the
query with stories written
about her following the 2006 death of her father.