Hitwise has ranked USATODAY.com number 1 by visits among all other U.S. websites in the Hitwise News and Media – Print category for 2006. “online competitive intelligence service” that measures Internet usage among 10 million U.S. Internet users. [Read more…]
comScore Releases February 2007 US Search Engine Rankings
comScore has released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In February 2007, Google Sites captured 48.1 percent of the U.S. search market, gaining 0.6 share points from the previous month. Yahoo! Sites maintained its second place ranking with 28.1 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (10.5 percent), Ask Network (5.0 percent) and Time Warner Network (4.9 percent). [Read more…]
FaceTime Says Traffic Stats for Chinese Sites Inaccurate
According to FaceTime researchers, a Trojan is falsely boosting traffic statistics for Chinese websites. FaceTime has discovered that the Symfly Trojan is abusing the Alexa Toolbar. Abusing the Alexa Toolbar causes a website’s traffic to be reported incorrectly. [Read more…]
Hitwise Says Searches for Global Warming Going Up
According to Hitwise, one of the companies that tracks these sorts of things, is saying in a press release today that searches for the search phrase “global warming” are “heating up”: The number of search queries containing the words ‘global warming’ increased 173 percent year over year — growing from 755 unique terms in the four weeks ending February 18, 2006 to 2,059 unique terms in the four weeks ending February 17, 2007. [Read more…]
comScore Releases January 2007 Search Engine Rankings
comScore Networks has just released (a few minutes ago) their monthly qSearch analysis of activity across all of the major competitive search engines. [Read more…]
Harris Interactive Says YouTube Users are Watching Less TV to Watch Videos Online
According to the results of a Harris Poll released today, one third of frequent YouTube users are watching less television to watch videos online. The same Harris Poll says that YouTube users do not want to see advertisements before they watch videos. What’s interesting to note is a statement by Harris Interactive: [Read more…]
Most Chinese Internet Users Access the Web Via Internet Cafes
According to governmental statistics, China’s internet population grew last year by 23.4 percent to 137 million people. At the current rate of growth, Chinese online users will outnumber the 210 million users in the United States by 2009. However, with half of the Chinese users accessing the Internet via computers in Internet cafes, marketers targeting the Chinese market should take a second look at these users. [Read more…]