Neowin News Feed for: Rankings

TikTok beats Google to become the most popular website of 2021

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 07:28:02 +0000

TikTok surpassed Google and became the world's most popular domain in the year 2021 according to Cloudflare. Last year at the same time, TikTok was at number 7 on the list and Google was in the lead. Read more...

Google is pushing sites that use HTTPS higher in its search results

Andy Weir — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 14:05:45 +0000

Google has confirmed that it has adjusted its search ranking algorithms to push sites that use HTTPS higher up in its search results - although, so far, the implementation of this has been limited. Read more...

Bug in Windows Store showing false high app rankings?

John Callaham — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:21:15 +0000

A new report claims that the current version of the Windows Store in Windows 8 is showing apps ranked high on its list, even though they only have one rating that is five stars. Read more...

Neowin launches the Graphics Card Rankings List

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 10 May 2011 12:52:09 +0000

Today Neowin is launching a brand new feature for everyone here looking to upgrade or purchase a new computer: a Graphics Card Rankings List. Simply put, we're taking performance benchmarks of each of the latest... Read more...

Apple tops Google as most valuable brand; now worth $153b

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 09 May 2011 09:02:16 +0000

For the last four years, Google has topped the Millward Brown BrandZ Top100 ranking of the most valuable brands globally, however today Apple has stepped over the search giant to claim the top spot. Apple... Read more...

Apple engineering a new App Store ranking system

Sam Symons — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:43:51 +0000

Apple has just finished their conference call, regarding their financial performance in the quarter that's just gone by; as usual, they allow a Q&A session afterwards, and Arnold Kim over at MacRumors has the details... Read more...

Microsoft tops Google hell search rankings

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 19 Sep 2002 10:41:26 +0000

Weirdisms in Google's ranking system are sent to entertain us occasionally, and as we've had this one from a couple of people today, we suspect it's new. But don't blame us if it's not, we... Read more...