Apparently there’s a flurry of online spending–all by procrastinators and deal-seekers. This is leading to a strong final week of pre-Christmas online shopping. comScore is reporting that online sales are up 25 percent versus a year ago. [Read more…]

Ask.com has revealed it’s Real Deal list of the top keyword search phrases for 2007. They said that it has been a MySpace year, and are revealing other interesting findings such as Barack Obama beating Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, the Boston Red Sox took the playing field, and Hannah Montana took over the TV screen. [Read more…]

Cyber Monday, November 26, 2007 had its unbelievable snafoos, but it ultimately was a success. In fact, comScore is reporting that sales are up 21 percent over last year. [Read more…]

comScore, the company that measures the digital world, has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis for October 2007. Google’s web sites remained at the top and had more than 6.1 billion searches which represented a 58.5 percent share of the search market. [Read more…]

Conduit has released the first monthly results of their new Community Trends index where you can see what online communities are searching for. [Read more…]

comScore has released a joint study with Proctor and Gamble, SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization), and Yahoo!, revealing that the opportunity that search engine marketing represents for marketing Consumer Packaged Goods. [Read more…]