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 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…]

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…]

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 Networks has just released (a few minutes ago) their monthly qSearch analysis of activity across all of the major competitive search engines. [Read more…]

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…]