Long Tail Search Traffic Distribution In t france business email list his first chart, you can see a representation of Hitwise's data from the four chunks Bill broke down. Google Apps is one of the more disruptive products released by Google recently, initially promoted through large and expensive AdWords campaigns, and recently with its outdoor billboards "Gone Google Apps Campaign". But their team has been less aggressive in flexing its search optimisation weight against Microsoft and IBM until recently.
Following up on research for an article I wrote, I started to notice that Google Apps were starting to rank much higher for their competitors products than they had typically in the past with all results showing in top 10 and above the fold. While this initially seemed a little paranoid, I decided to check into whether these were just manual changes to the search ranking results or a more effective and targeted strategy by Google. TechCrunch covered an issue in late September about the rise of Google linking back to Google content and as with the Google Places pages issue.