According to comScore, Google Sites ranked as the top search property in India with more than 1 billion searches conducted in June, representing 81 percent of the market. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 9.4 percent, followed by Ask Network (1.9 percent) and Microsoft Sites (1.7 percent). Indian Internet portal Rediff.com ranked fifth with 1.5 percent.

Top Search Properties in India June 2008 Total India – Age 15+, Home/Work Locations Source: comScore qSearch
	Searches (MM)	Share of Searches
Total Internet	1,242	100.0
Google Sites	1,011	81.4
Yahoo! Sites	117	9.4
Ask Network	24	1.9
Microsoft Sites	22	1.7
Rediff.com India Ltd	18	1.5
FACEBOOK.COM	10	0.8
People Group	9	0.8
CNET Networks	5	0.4
Wikipedia Sites	5	0.4
AOL LLC	3	0.2

For more information visit: comScore and read its Press Release on India Search Market Led by 1 Billion Searches on Google Sites in June.

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According to Live Search Webmaster Center Blog, Live Search is testing an update of MSNBot. This may show a new crawler name in your server log report. The new crawler user agent will appear as:

msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)

But msnbot/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) will still be the primary user agent for Live Search and you will see them in your log report as earlier. According to Live Search Webmaster Center Blog, the updated crwaler will also follow the robots exclusion protocol and there is no need to change or update your Robots.txt file.

For more information you can visit: Live Search Webmaster Center Blog

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Google has introduced Event Tracking in Google Analytics. It is like other Google Applications is still in BETA. The following is the snippet of mail that I have received from Google Analytics Team.

"Greetings from Google Analytics,

We are happy to let you know that the Event Tracking feature is now available in all profiles for the following Google Analytics Account ID: *******. Please note that you are receiving this email update because you are an 'Admin' or designated contact for the account listed above.

When you log in to these profiles, you will see a new set of reports called "Event Tracking" under the Content section. As posted on our blog, this is a limited release currently available only to select profiles.

Event Tracking allows you to track interactions with Web 2.0 style content such as Flash, AJAX, Silverlight, social networking apps, etc. We recently made tracking Adobe Flash even easier with the release of a new Flash Tracking client library. It allows for much simpler tracking of Flash content with drag and drop functionality and an open source framework.

To use Event Tracking, you will need to upgrade your site to use the new ga.js javascript. Detailed instructions on how to set up Event Tracking on your site are available on our CodeSite.
To find your ga.js code snippet, edit the settings for your profile and click the "Check Status" link on the upper right corner of the page. You can now track interactions beyond just pageviews.

Sincerely,
The Google Analytics Team "

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