Digital Factoid: It's Scary Out There

An estimated 60% of all Internet traffic is bot-driven, and 31% of that activity is being done with malicious intent, reports Incapsula Inc., which monitors website traffic. Half of the bot traffic is benign, representing search engine crawlers, for example. And the good news is that Google last year apparently made inroads into curbing automatic […]

How Big Is Google?

Google accounted for $17 billion (39.9%) of net U.S. digital advertising dollars in 2013, and is expected to grow its market share to 40.8% in 2014, according to eMarketer. Facebook last year was a distant second at 7.4% at $3.17 billion and is projected to grow to 8.2% of the pie this year. The rest […]