It seems that YouTube’s traffic numbers for music videos might not be quite as accurate as many had hoped, with Warner Music Group pointing to some fairly questionable numbers.

YouTube does have its own music service...

Word comes via Cnet that Warner Music saw a massive spike in the number of unique visitors to its various different YouTube videos between over the course of December and January, with reports indicating that it had managed to more than double its traffic, seeing views around the 47 million mark in a month. Still, all might not be as well as it seems from that description…

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According to search statistics for the month of December, it seems that Google has managed to grow once again, with Microsoft’s search engine, Bing falling a little.

According to Nielsen’s report on the search market for last month, it seems that Google has grown, hitting 67.3% of all searches made in December, up 1.9% from its November statistics. At the same time, Yahoo maintained second place though it didn’t do so entirely without falling. With a 14.4% share, Yahoo has dropped by 0.9%.

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Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, has continued to grow, despite analyst’s expectations that it had either already reached a terminal point and settled down or even be declining.

Rumours of Bing’s demise it seems had been greatly exaggerated. September figures for the search engine were released by several outfits that indicated Bing’s market share has started to slide, and the press was quick to pounce on what many perceived to be the carcass of Microsoft’s search engine. Since then though, more reliable figures have indicated that Bing had actually grown during the month of September, and TechCrunch is reporting that it’s managed to do so again in October.

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