Any two sets of statistics rarely agree. That’s because numbers are so easy to manipulate. But when it comes to search engine marketshare, two stats giants agree. Search engine marketshare seems to be frozen.

Google is no longer gaining, and the top 5 search engines have established pecking order. The numbers vary by miniscule amounts, with Compete shaving a few points off Google and throwing it to the competition, but the overall breakdowns aren’t much different.

Search Engine Marketshare 2009 Piechart:
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About a week ago I was contacted by someone with a hacked wordpress blog. I hit the Internet looking for wordpress hack information and found a post at NewCoolThang. It said:

The scheme is pretty clever. Apparently what they do is hack into your WordPress site via FTP somehow or other (likely via a vulnerability in older versions of WP), then they modify your wp-blog-header.php file. The purpose of the hack is to siphon off all of your search engine traffic to their spam sites.

Right enough. That’s exactly what the hacker does. It steals your search engine traffic.

Except, it’s not just old versions. Many blogs were saying the “fix” is to upgrade your WordPress. But the hacked blog staring me in the face was the most recent version of WordPress. Clearly, that wasn’t the solution.

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If you took all the Internet Users in the world and put them into a geographic pie chart, do you know what it would look like?
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