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, 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…]

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…]

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, 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 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…]

According to comScore, photo-related widgets dominate the top 10, and slide widget usages ranks number one–with a reach of 117 million people worldwide. Because of this comScore, the company that tracks internet usage world wide and “measures the digital world”, has launched comScore Widget Metrix, a service to track the usage of widgets across the Internet. [Read more…]

comScore has recently conducted a study on the relationship between paid search marketing (pay per click advertising) and retail e-commerce. The study, based on the March, 2007 comScore qSearch Marketer report, revealed that e-commerce web sites are the most frequent users of Pay Per Click (PPC) search engine marketing; each of the top ten search engine marketers were either retail or comparison shopping web sites. [Read more…]

It’s no surprise (to me) that Google continues to be the most popular web site in the United Kingdom. comScore is also reporting today that social networking web sites’ traffic continues to grow. Furthermore, comScore says that the Easter holiday drove a lot of traffic. [Read more…]

comScore has come out with their traffic reports for the leading United Kingdom sites. Many social networking and major consumer websites are seeing an increase in visitors. comScore, Inc. is a leader in “measuring the digital world” and measuring internet traffic in general. This based on a massive, global cross-section of more than 2 million consumers who have given comScore permission to confidentially capture their browsing and transaction behavior, including online and offline purchasing. [Read more…]