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Metricool Brings Real Analytics to Personal LinkedIn Profiles

Posted on July 8, 2025 Written by Bill Hartzer

Metricool, the social media scheduling and reporting tool used by agencies and creators worldwide, just rolled out a long-awaited feature: LinkedIn analytics for personal profiles. [Read more…]

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DoubleClickjacking: The Stealthy Web Hack That Could Hijack Your Accounts

Posted on January 17, 2025 Written by Bill Hartzer

A new web hacking technique, DoubleClickjacking, is making waves in the cybersecurity world, and for a good reason. This cunning method is not just a clever twist on traditional clickjacking; it’s a game-changer. By exploiting the brief interval between clicks, attackers can stealthily replace harmless UI elements with sensitive ones in an instant, compromising user accounts with minimal interaction. Paulos Yibelo recently wrote about doubleclickjacking. [Read more…]

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Leiden’s Digital Prowess: 97% of Local Companies Are Privacy Law Ready

Posted on January 17, 2025 Written by Bill Hartzer

Nestled in the heart of South Holland, Leiden is a historic city in the Netherlands known for its rich cultural heritage, prestigious universities, and picturesque canals. But beyond its scenic beauty, Leiden is making waves in the digital privacy arena. According to recent research by TransIP, a whopping 97% of businesses in Leiden are choosing local providers, ensuring compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This figure starkly contrasts with a national trend where only 24% of organizations remain independent of U.S. tech giants. [Read more…]

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PR Newswire’s Top 15 Press Releases of 2024: Trends That Stole the Spotlight

Posted on January 3, 2025 Written by Bill Hartzer

Press releases are alive and kicking, as evidenced by PR Newswire’s roundup of the top 15 press releases from 2024. These headlines, spanning everything from product launches to industry-shaping mergers, reveal not just trends in communication but also what audiences are eager to read about. [Read more…]

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TikTok’s Influence Strikes Again: How “Demure” Became 2024’s Word of the Year

Posted on November 26, 2024 Written by Bill Hartzer

In making the annual selection, Dictionary.com’s lexicographers analyzed a wealth of data—including newsworthy headlines, search engine results and social media trends—to identify words that captured pivotal moments in 2024.

 

Dictionary.com has crowned “demure” as its 2024 Word of the Year, redefining a term that’s quietly taken the cultural spotlight. Once a descriptor for modesty or reservation, “demure” has evolved into a badge of sophistication and understated confidence, reflecting how personal presentation is adapting in a world steadily returning to in-person interactions. [Read more…]

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Xiaohongshu’s Mid-Year Report Reveals Surging Search Habits Among China’s Gen Z

Posted on August 13, 2024 Written by Bill Hartzer

Xiaohongshu, one of China’s leading lifestyle platforms, has unveiled its mid-year search report for 2024, shedding light on the evolving preferences and interests of its rapidly growing user base, especially among Gen Z. The report, which analyzes search data from millions of users during the first half of 2024, highlights the top lifestyle trends and insights that are shaping the daily lives of young Chinese consumers. [Read more…]

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Revolutionary Digital Identity Protection Solution Launched in Thailand by Resecurity

Posted on May 31, 2024 Written by Bill Hartzer

In an exciting development for cybersecurity in Thailand, Resecurity (USA), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, has announced the launch of its advanced Digital Identity Protection (IDP) solution. This state-of-the-art offering aims to combat the rising tide of data breaches and identity theft incidents that have recently plagued consumers and businesses in the region. With this launch, Resecurity is set to transform the digital identity protection landscape in Thailand. [Read more…]

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Must-Read Holiday Guide: Keep Your Kids Safe Online with These Crucial Tips

Posted on December 20, 2023 Written by Bill Hartzer

Three tips to make sure your children are safe online this holiday season

In the midst of a holiday season marked by record-breaking spending, the gift of Internet-enabled devices is poised to dominate households across America. However, as the allure of tablets, phones, wearables, and game consoles brightens the eyes of children, a shadow of potential online threats looms. The surge in online exploitation cases involving vulnerable children has prompted a stark warning from Raven, a dedicated organization safeguarding children from victimization. [Read more…]

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Holiday Warning: Beware of Phishing Attacks, Keeper Security Offers Tips to Stay Safe

Posted on October 26, 2023 Written by Bill Hartzer

Remaining vigilant and learning to spot the telltale signs of phishing attacks

As Halloween approaches, bringing with it pumpkin carving, trick-or-treating, and spooky movie nights, there’s one chilling threat that lurks in the shadows this season – phishing attacks. Just as children don disguises to collect candy on Halloween, cybercriminals masquerade online to trick unsuspecting victims into divulging sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, and even Social Security numbers. Keeper Security, a leading provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software designed to safeguard passwords, passkeys, privileged access, secrets, and remote connections, is here to help you ward off these digital ghouls. [Read more…]

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Piracy for Streaming Content a Growing Concern Worldwide as 44% of Asian Consumers Admit to Illegally Accessing Content

Posted on October 9, 2023 Written by Bill Hartzer

44% of Asian consumers admit to piracy for streaming content

The issue of piracy in the streaming content industry is gaining significant attention as a recent study conducted by Bango reveals that 44% of Asian consumers now resort to illegal piracy sites due to the rising cost of subscription services. The study, which delved into subscription trends and the emergence of Super Bundling across Asia, analyzed data from over 6,000 consumers in countries including India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. [Read more…]

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Web Hosting Services Market to Grow to $254.86 Billion by 2029

Posted on December 13, 2022 Written by Bill Hartzer

Web Hosting Services Market to Grow at a Surprising Growth of USD 254.86 Billion by 2029

The global web hosting services market was valued at $78.44 billion in 2021 and is expected to reach $254.86 billion by 2029. Data Bridge Market Research has recently published a report titled, “Web Hosting Services Market”. [Read more…]

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Yext Consumer Search Trend Predictions for 2020

Posted on December 8, 2020 Written by Bill Hartzer

Yext holiday search trends
Yext has released their Consumer Search Trend Predictions for 2020.

Yext has released its predictions for consumer search behavior during the holiday season. [Read more…]

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InLinks Market Trends: Spot and Track Trends in Your Industry

Posted on April 27, 2020 Written by Bill Hartzer

inlinks market trends

InLinks Market Trends is a new tool by InLinks.net that allow you to spot and track market trends before anyone else sees that market trend. Imagine if you could see trends in your particular market, your category, your topic before anyone else. How valuable would that be? For me, that would be great. As a blogger, I like to write about topics that are just starting to trend: I can get a page to rank for a keyword when there’s not that much competition. Then, when it gets more popular, I’m already ranking for that keyword. You can apply that technique to literally any industry if you have a blog on your website. [Read more…]

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Ads and Data Privacy Promote Customer Dissatisfaction in Social Media, Search

Posted on July 24, 2018 Written by Bill Hartzer

social media satisfaction

Want a sure-fire way to dissatisfy users on social media? Show them ads and mess with their private data. According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI®) 2018 E-Business Report, customer satisfaction with social media as a whole fell 1.4 percent to a score of 72 on the ACSI’s 100-point scale. Customer satisfaction with social media ranked it among the bottom five of all industries measured by ACSI. [Read more…]

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What Happens in an Internet Minute in 2018?

Posted on May 25, 2018 Written by Bill Hartzer

Internet Minute in 2018

What happens in an internet minute in 2018? Well, a lot more that you or I would think. Every year, @LoriLewis and @OfficiallyChadd compile the numbers–and publish the graphic as seen above. [Read more…]

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2018 Global NGO Technology Report Released by PIR and Nonprofit Tech for Good

Posted on February 12, 2018 Written by Bill Hartzer

2018 global ngo report

The Public Interest Registry (PIR.org) and Nonprofit Tech for Good have released the results of their annual survey, the 2018 Global NGO Technology Report. The report details “how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide use web, email and mobile technology, online fundraising tools and social media, as well as manage data and security.” [Read more…]

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Alexa What’s Hot Feature Officially Retired

Posted on February 26, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

The Alexa What’s Hot feature was just officially turned off today. If you now go to www.alexa.com/whatshot you’ll be redirected to a support article on the site: [Read more…]

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3 Things To Do Today for Safer Internet Day

Posted on February 9, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

Today, Tuesday, February 9th, is Safer Internet Day. I honestly didn’t realize that it was Safer Internet Day yet, until a friend of mine posted about Google giving us 2 extra GB of data in our Google Drive accounts. If you do a quick 2 minute security check of your Google Account, Google will reward you with extra storage space (which they normally charge for). There are, in fact, other things that you can do today, as well, for internet security. Here are three things that you can do right now, today, that will make the internet safer for you and for all of us. [Read more…]

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Two New gTLD Domains Show Up in Alexa What’s Hot

Posted on January 6, 2016 Written by Bill Hartzer

One of the things that I monitor on a regular basis is the Alexa What’s Hot (on the web), formerly called the Alexa Hot URLs. In order to be on that list (that’s updated every five minutes or so), the site has to have a LOT of traffic going to it. So, when I looked at the list of top 20 URLs on the web in terms of traffic, I was surprised to see two new gTLD domain names there on the list. While I’m surprised that this is the first time I’ve seen new gTLD domains there, I’m not surprised that they are .CLUB domains.

alexa-whatshot-URLs-Jan6-2016

The two sites are DatingAdvices.Club and HomeFitnessBeauty.Club. Unfortunately, looking at these particular names, though, it appears that they’re most likely on the list of Alexa What’s Hot URLs because they’re doing something nefarious with the traffic or doing something that isn’t “natural”. [Read more…]

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Search Engine Rankings for January 2014: Search Queries up 8 Percent

Posted on February 19, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

Every month about this time comScore releases its search engine market share data for the previous month. I try to cover this every month, and report the search engine rankings. During January 2014, Google continued their reign in the search engine market with 67.6 percent the market share. Microsoft had 18.3 percent, and Yahoo! with 10.4 percent. Here’s some more detail:

comscore-search-rankings-jan2014 [Read more…]

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Search Engine Market Share for December 2013

Posted on January 17, 2014 Written by Bill Hartzer

Every month about this time, comScore releases their data for the search engine market share for the previous month. Google’s search engine market share rose .6 percent during December 2013. Google’s search engine market share is 67.3 percent, Microsoft (Bing) went up .1 percent to 18.2 percent, Yahoo! had 10.8 percent, Ask Network had 2.5 percent, and AOL had 1.3 percent. [Read more…]

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November 2013 Search Engine Rankings Released, Google Loses Market Share

Posted on December 13, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

comScore has released its monthly search engine rankings, the numbers that detail the search engine market share. Google now has 66.7 percent of the market share for searches, followed by Microsoft (Bing) with 18.1 percent, and Yahoo! with 11.2 percent. Ask.com is down to 2.6 percent and AOL now has only 1.4 percent of the market share for searches. [Read more…]

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Top 10 Keyword Searches for 2013 on Bing

Posted on December 2, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

Bing.com, the search engine owned and operated by Microsoft, has revealed the top 10 keyword searches for 2013. Topping the list of the most searched-for people in 2013 in the United State is Beyonce Knowles, whereas Kim Kardashian was the top search last year in the US. [Read more…]

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comScore Search Engine Rankings for October 2013

Posted on November 15, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

Every month at about this time, I try to post the search engine market share, the search engine rankings, for the previous month as reported by comScore. Google’s websites and web properties have 66.9 percent market share. Microsoft own sites, including Bing.com, took some more market share from Google, and now has 18.1 percent of searches. [Read more…]

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comScore April 2013 Search Engine Rankings

Posted on May 16, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I try to remember report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. Think of this more as the “market share” for the search engine industry. [Read more…]

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Study: Hispanic Consumers 21% More Likely to Use Social Media for Customer Service

Posted on January 27, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

In a recent study by NM Incite, it was revealed that Hispanic social media users are 21% more likely than the average U.S. social media user to use social media for customer care and customer service. Also as a result of this same study, they found that over 57% of active Hispanic social media users have asked a question or voiced a complaint/issue to a brand or company using social media (e.g. Twitter or Facebook), compared to 47% of the general population. [Read more…]

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comScore December 2012 Search Engine Rankings

Posted on January 15, 2013 Written by Bill Hartzer

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I try to remember report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. Think of this more as the “market share” for the search engine industry. [Read more…]

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March 2012 Search Engine Rankings

Posted on April 13, 2012 Written by Bill Hartzer

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. Think of this more as the “market share” for the search engine industry. [Read more…]

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February 2012 Search Engine Rankings

Posted on March 12, 2012 Written by Bill Hartzer

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. Think of this more as the “market share” for the search engine industry. [Read more…]

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comScore January 2012 Search Engine Rankings

Posted on February 10, 2012 Written by Bill Hartzer

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. Think of this more as the “market share” for the search engine industry. [Read more…]

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Search Engine Market Share for December 2011

Posted on January 12, 2012 Written by Bill Hartzer

Every month about this time comScore releases their search engine rankings, the search engine market share, for the previous month. So, since it’s January 2012, we are now seeing the search engine market share for December 2011. [Read more…]

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Search Engine Rankings for September 2011

Posted on October 13, 2011 Written by Bill Hartzer

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. [Read more…]

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Search Engine Rankings – Search Market Share for May 2011

Posted on June 10, 2011 Written by Bill Hartzer

As you probably know by now, every month I make it habit of posting the latest search engine market share–the search engine rankings for the previous month, as provided by comScore. As such, comScore has released its monthly comScore analysis of the United States search marketplace. As always, Google‘s web sites led the search market again in May 2011 with 65.5 percent of all search queries conducted in the United States. Yahoo! has 15.9 percent market share and Microsoft has 14.1 percent. [Read more…]

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90 Percent of Searches Conducted in Latin America are Conducted on Google

Posted on May 17, 2011 Written by Bill Hartzer

According to a new report out from comScore, 9 out of 10 searches conducted in Latin America are conducted on a Google-owned website. comScore has released the results from a study of the search engine market in Latin America. In the past year, search queries in Latin America surged up 21 percent to more than 18.5 billion queries in March 2011. [Read more…]

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comScore April 2011 Search Engine Rankings

Posted on May 13, 2011 Written by Bill Hartzer

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. [Read more…]

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Online Video Rankings for February 2011; Hulu Generates 1 Billion Video Ad Impressions

Posted on March 17, 2011 Written by Bill Hartzer

comScore has released the online video rankings for the month of February, 2011 in the United States. The comScore Video Metrix service shows that 170 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in February 2011 for an average of 13.6 hours per viewer. The total U.S. Internet audience engaged in more than 5.0 billion viewing sessions during the course of the month. [Read more…]

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Top 50 USA Websites for November 2010

Posted on December 22, 2010 Written by Bill Hartzer

comScore has released its list of the top fifty websites in the United States for the month of November 2010. This is the comScore monthly analysis of U.S. web activity at the top online properties for November 2010 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. [Read more…]

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November 2010 Search Engine Market Share

Posted on December 16, 2010 Written by Bill Hartzer

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. [Read more…]

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Study: User-Generated Video Reviews Just As Effective as Professionally Produced TV Ads

Posted on October 13, 2010 Written by Bill Hartzer

The results of a study was released today that shows that user-generated videos are just as effective for sales as professionally-produced videos. If that is the case, then why do we need to hire a professional to produce a video? [Read more…]

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comScore August 2010 Search Engine Rankings

Posted on September 17, 2010 Written by Bill Hartzer

Every month about this time comScore releases the search engine rankings data, and I report it here. These are not the actual search engine rankings that you see when you search at a search engine, which are constantly changing. [Read more…]

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