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Social Networks & News - Another MySpace Phenomenon
August 31, 2006
In my daily blog reading this morning, I noticed Steve Rubel's post regarding the Washington Post's initiative to build reader comments and profiles into their site, a step towards social news networking. Just today, we issued a press release that... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 06:07 PM
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Unexpected Decline in Existing Home Sales? Not Exactly.
August 24, 2006
On Wednesday, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released their existing homes sales figures for July. Headlines covering the release talked about the surprising drop in this economic indicator. Once again, leveraging the power of our search term data (as... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 02:59 PM
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Google's Weekly Search Numbers
August 22, 2006
Danny Sullivan posted a very interesting piece yesterday on what the research services were reporting for Google's July market share of executed searches. We posted our July numbers the first week of this month indicating a healthy growth in executed... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 07:56 AM
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Project Runway - Heidi Klum Increases Her Brand Equity
August 18, 2006
Ok, I'll admit it. I'm not sure why, but I've been sucked into this season of Project Runway. Perhaps it's because Bravo has brought a bit of legitamacy to the reality TV concept, with a truly engaging contest of fashion... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 12:00 PM
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Google Video, YouTube and MySpace Vids: An Update
August 16, 2006
Now that we've reached the one week point since Google added the Google Video link to the front page, I thought it would be a good idea to check in on the data. First to John Battelle's point that the... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 12:24 PM
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Google Video - What a Difference a Link Makes
August 10, 2006
Saw this post from Steve Rubel that alerted me to the fact that Google changed the links above its main search box yesterday (Wednesday), removing Froogle and replacing it with Video. As the links on Google's home page don't change... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 11:27 PM
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The Baby Names Conundrum
August 09, 2006
I'm just back from Search Engine Strategies, where we had a great turnout for our three presentations on Monday. During my Searchonomics (so named becuase the book Freakonomics gave me the idea for the session), I spent my 35 minutes... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 06:27 PM
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MySpace and Google: What do the Numbers Say?
August 08, 2006
Yesterday morning (prior to the deal being announced) I presented on the Search Engine Landscape Panel at SES San Jose. During the second half of my presentation, I discussed the opportunity/threat that MySpace poses to the search engines, primarily Google.... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 08:43 AM
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July Unemployment Numbers (U.S.) - Calling All Economists
August 05, 2006
When I'm not crunching the latest numbers on search engines or predicting winners of American Idol, one of my pastimes (and perhaps the reason for my reputation as a data geek) is correlating Hitwise data with economic indicators. When I... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 02:20 AM
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Google, Yahoo! and MSN: Brand Association
August 03, 2006
Here's a preview of a slide from my Search Engine Landscape Presentation for Search Engine Strategies - San Jose (11:00am on Monday). Each time I present on this panel , I look forward to showing everyone some fresh perspective on... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 05:01 PM
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Google Breaks 60% - U.S. July Search Volume Numbers
August 03, 2006
In addition to market share of visits and page impressions, one of the statistics that Hitwise compiles is the volume of searches executed on the top search engines. Given our large sample, "top" is defined as 57 search engines used... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 12:06 AM
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MySpace Outage: The Post Mortem
August 01, 2006
Here's a great example of how a competitive intelligence mindset can cause you to look at things from a completely different angle. While the Blogosphere was buzzing about the MySpace outage on the weekend of 7/22 & 23, most posts... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 06:45 PM
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