Globally, Baidu Beats Microsoft in Search; Yandex Creeping Up On Ask

Here’s Dec 2007 search engine statistics provided by comScore.

· In December 2007, 66.2 billion search queries were conducted worldwide.

· In December 2007, Baidu.com Inc. was the third ranked search property worldwide with 3.4 billion searches, capturing 5.2 percent of worldwide search share.

Worldwide Search Top 10 December 2007 Total World Age 15+, Home and Work Locations* Source: comScore qSearch 2.0
	Searches (MM)	Share of Searches
Total Internet	66,221	100.0
Google Sites	41,345	62.4
Yahoo! Sites	8,505	12.8
Baidu.com Inc.	3,428	5.2
Microsoft Sites	1,940	2.9
NHN Corporation	1,572	2.4
eBay	1,428	2.2
Time Warner Network	1,062	1.6
Ask Network	728	1.1
Yandex	566	0.9
Alibaba.com Corporation	531	0.8

*Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

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Overlay.tv Gets $4.6M to Add Links, Images to Your Videos

Original post here from Mashable:

Overlay.tv is an upcoming video network that lets you add hyperlinks and image overlays to video content in order to monetize the clips. The Overlay technology and network won’t be launched until Valentine’s Day, but the service is getting some early press thanks to its funding news. $4.6 million in Series A financing has been provided by Celtic House Venture Partners, EdgeStone Capital Partners and Tech Capital Partners.

From overlay.tv, you could see their demos for:
1) See how Overlay is used for FUN.
2) See how Overlay is used by SMALL BUSINESS.
3) See how Overlay is used by BIG BUSINESS.

They are scheduled to launch on Valentine’s Day 2008.