This day in search marketing history: February 16

2017: Russia’s largest search engine generated $364.7 million for the last quarter of 2016, and averaged 55.4% share of the country’s search market. 2012: The average CTRs in Q4 for local search ads were 7 percent, while locally targeted display ads yielded 0.6 CTRs. 2010: No, Facebook wouldn’t erode the importance of search and search marketing. Past contributions from Search Engine Land’s Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)These columns are a snapshot in time and have not been updated since publishing, unless noted. Opinions expressed in these articles are those of the author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.