Are you a loyal visitor? When you browse the web every day, when you log on, are there websites that you go to every day? We all have a few websites that we constantly watch or constantly read. And that’s a good thing. Apparently you feel that the content on those websites keep you coming back enough that they cause you to be a loyal reader. [Read more…]
comScore Releases August 2009 Search Engine Rankings
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) has released their monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the United States search marketplace. In August 2009, Americans conducted more than 13.9 billion core searches, with Google accounting for 64.6 percent search market share. Microsoft Sites grabbed 9.3 percent market share, a 0.4-percentage point gain versus July 2009. [Read more…]
comScore Says Google Leads Internet in Brazil and India
comScore Search Engine Rankings for June 2009
comScore Releases May 2009 Search Engine Rankings
User Centric Releases Results of Eye Tracking Study: Google Versus Bing
User Centric has released the results of an eye tracking study that compares data between Google and the new Microsoft search engine Bing. What is interesting to note is that sponsored links are attracting more attention than they are on Google. Google users appear to be more aware of the sponsored links. [Read more…]
Top 50 USA Web Properties for April 2009
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, has released its monthly list of consumer activity on the top 50 web properties in the USA. They do this every month, and it’s based on data from their comScore Media Metrix service. [Read more…]
comScore Releases First Public Report of Online Usage in Singapore
According to a new report by comScore, Internet users in Singapore spend half of their time online using social and entertainment websites. This is the first public report of online usage in Singapore. It includes a ranking of the most “engaging and visited Internet site categories and properties, based on the comScore World Metrix service, and the top search properties, based on the comScore qSearch service. [Read more…]
comScore: Mobile Social Networking is Responsible for Growth of Mobile Internet
A new comScore report out today shows that mobile social networking is responsible for the growth of the mobile internet in Europe. One third of European mobile social networking users access social media sites exclusively. [Read more…]
comScore August 2008 Search Engine Rankings
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) has updated their monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the USA search engines. In August 2008, searchers in the USA conducted 11.7 billion core searches, virtually unchanged from July 2008. Google’s web sites extended their lead in the core search market share by 1.1 percentage points. [Read more…]
Paris Hilton Fires Back at John McCain; Stays At Top of Search Phrases
Paris Hilton fired back at John McCain in response to Presidential Candidate John McCain’s recent television ad. John McCain’s TV ad compared Senator Barack Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Paris Hilton stayed atop the Lycos to(TM) Top Search Terms for the week ending August 2nd, 2008. Every week Lycos comes out with a list of the top 50 most popular search phrases for the previous week. [Read more…]
comScore Releases June 2008 Search Engine Rankings
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In June 2008, Americans conducted 11.5 billion core searches, representing a 7-percent gain versus May. [Read more…]
Alex Rodriguez and Madonna Surge in Searches on Lycos Network
According to Lycos, the rumors of an affair between Alex Rodriguez and Madonna caused a huge surge in the number of searches for their names last week. Other searches that surged last week were searches for Grey’s Anatomy’s Katherine Heigl, Nicole Kidman, Jesse Jackson and the iPhone. [Read more…]
comScore Releases May 2008 Search Engine Rankings
comScore has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the United States search engine rankings for May, 2008. Last month, searchers in the United States conducted 10.8 billion core searches. Google increased their market share slightly according to the stats. [Read more…]
comScore Releases March 2008 United States Search Engine Rankings
As a follow-up to yesterday’s comScore post, I thought I would update you on the United States’ search engine rankings. [Read more…]
ComScore Releases Web Rankings for March 2008, Yellow Book and MLB Top Gainers
comScore has released their monthly internet rankings for March 2008. Among the notable changes this past month is the increased traffic to the Yellow Book Network as well as more traffic to MLB.com. The typical NCAA “March Madness” drove a lot of traffic to online gambling sites. [Read more…]
Top United Kingdom Internet Rankings for January 2008
comScore, Inc. has released its January 2008 rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet web properties and site categories in the United Kingdom. The rankings are based on data taken from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. [Read more…]
comScore Releases 2007 U.S. Internet Year in Review
According to comScore, Google and Facebook were some of the biggest winners last year when it comes to the top gaining web properties and overall search market growth. [Read more…]
comScore Releases December U.S. Search Engine Rankings for December 2007
comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace for December 2007. Among core search engines in December 2007, Google Sites remained the top search property with 5.6 billion core searches conducted, representing a 58.4 percent share of the search market. [Read more…]
Chase Paymentech Says 2007 Online Holiday Retail Sales Grew by 29 Percent
Any interesting report is out today from Chase Paymentech, saying that the online holiday retail sales for 2007 grew by a whopping twenty nine percent. [Read more…]
comScore Reports Heaviest Online Spending Due to Procrastinators
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 Reveals Top Search Phrases for 2007
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 Spending Hits Record $733 Million
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 Releases October 2007 US Search Engine Rankings
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 Launches Community Trends Index
Search Engine Marketing is Vital for Consumer Packaged Goods Companies
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…]
comScore Reports September 2007 USA Search Engine Rankings
comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR), the company that “measures the digital world”, has released their monthly comScore qSearch analysis that shows the search engine rankings in the USA. [Read more…]
comScore Unveils comScore Marketer Interactive Search Intelligence Service
comScore has unveiled a new service for marketers called “comScore Marketer” that gives you a comprehensive set of online tools that allows you to assess a site’s online marketing performance. comScore Marketer is a new interactive search intelligence service that helps you benchmark performance and optimize a marketing campaign’s ROI. [Read more…]
comScore Launches qSearch 2.0 in Japan
comScore, the company that measures the digital world, has launched qSearch 2.0 in Japan. qSearch 2.0 is a product that offers the first worldwide, panoramic view of online search activity. qSearch 2.0 provides a granular, in-depth analysis of the search universe worldwide. [Read more…]
comScore Releases Search Engine Rankings for July 2007
comScore, a company that “measures the digital world”, has released their monthly qSearch analysis of the internet activity across the major search engines. comScore reports that in July 2007, Google Sites ranked as the top core search engine with 55.2 percent share of searches among the top five search engines. Yahoo! Sites ranked second with 23.5 percent, followed by Microsoft Sites (12.3 percent), Ask Network (4.7 percent) and Time Warner Network (4.4 percent). [Read more…]
comScore Upgrades Search Measurement with comScore qSearch 2.0
comScore, a company that “measures the digital world”, has upgraded the way they define searches. Previously, comScore defined “the search universe” as searches that occur at the major search engines. Now they’re defining “the search universe” by expanding their total market view–the now include other searches that occur on the Internet. [Read more…]
comScore Publishes Latin American Internet Usage Data
If you’re a marketer, or an online marketer, then you had better take a look at the Latin American market. According to comScore, the average Latin American Internet User spent 29 Hours on the web in June, 2007. [Read more…]
Lycos 50 for Week Ending July 14, 2007 – Al Qaeda and Emma Watson Are Tops
Lycos, a leading internet community destination for entertainment content (formerly known as the Lycos search engine), is reporting their “Lycos 50” for the week ending July 14, 2007. [Read more…]
comScore Releases June 2007 US Search Engine Rankings
comScore, a company that “measures the digital world” has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of internet traffic to the major search engines. [Read more…]
Top Ten Most Significant eCommerce Developments of the Last Ten Years
The Software & Information Industry Association has come out with what they’re calling the top ten most important eCommerce developments of the last decade. Google, launched in September of 1998, ranks amongst the highest. [Read more…]
Lycos Reveals Top Search Phrases for Week Ending June 30, 2007
Lycos, the former-search-engine-turned-internet-portal, has come out with their list of the top keyword searches for the week ending June 30, 2007. [Read more…]
iCrossing Study Reveals Online Disconnect Between US Presidential Candidates and Voters
According to a new study by the digitial marketing firm iCrossing, voters are searching for information related to where the US Presidential candidates stand, but the candidates themselves are not responding. The study also reveals that most of the candidates have a web presence–but their current online strategies are failing miserably. [Read more…]
Keyword Searches Related to Apple iPhone
comScore, the company that “measures the digital world”, has released the results of a study on USA search activity releated to the Apple iPhone. According to the results of the study, there was an average of 274,000 keyword searches per week since the start of 2007. [Read more…]
comScore Releases USA Search Engine Rankings for May 2007
comScore, a company that “measures the digital world” has released their monthly qSearch analysis of the internet activity across the major search engines. comScore reports that in May 2007, Google’s web sites had 50.7 percent of the USA search market; Google gained one full share point over the previous month, April 2007. [Read more…]
comScore Releases Top Fifty Internet Rankings for May 2007
comScore Media Metrix has released their list of the top 50 web rankings for May, 2007. This is an analysis of the top USA consumer-related websites. Since we’re getting into the summer season, there was an increase in traffic to movie-related websites. Apparently political websites are fueling interest because of the presidential debates that took place. comScore also noted that e-commerce websites had a jump in traffic because people were shopping for Mother’s Day gifts online. [Read more…]