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Google Properties - The Extended List

November 30, 2006

This morning I had the pleasure of filming a segment with Bambi Francisco about, among other things, the holiday season, and the dominant role search plays in the online retail sector. Specifically we talked about the holiday season and the... Continue reading...

Posted by Bill Tancer at 07:37 PM | (4) | (1)
In Categories Google

Charting Answers

November 29, 2006

I woke this morning to Danny Sullivan's blog entry regarding the demise of Google Answers which was announced yesterday. In his post Danny alluded to an updated Hitwise chart comparing Yahoo! Answers, Google Answers and the new Microsoft Windows Live... Continue reading...

Posted by Bill Tancer at 10:17 AM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Search Engines

Cyber Monday - Up 13.3% from 2005

November 28, 2006

The stats are in for the much-hyped Cyber-Monday and compared to Cyber-Monday in 2005, the Hitwise Retail 100 Index is up 13.3% for yesterday (11/27/06). As we've seen for the fourth year running (as represented in the chart below), Thanksgiving... Continue reading...

Posted by Bill Tancer at 06:10 PM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Shopping and Classifieds

Thanksgiving and Online Dieting - Reflecting on a Negative Correlation

November 27, 2006

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year, its not just the turkey. It's the time of year that I can create one of my favorite charts... the relationship between visits to online dieting sites and searches for "Thanksgiving Recipes."... Continue reading...

Posted by Bill Tancer at 11:38 AM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Food and Beverage | Health and Medical

Google v. Yahoo! Predicting the Intercept

November 21, 2006

I came across Ben Charny's article that cited Citigroup's (Mark Mahaney) prediction that Google would overtake Yahoo! to be the top Internet property some time in 2007. I decided to pull the chart below on market share of visits to... Continue reading...

Posted by Bill Tancer at 10:44 AM | (1) | (1)
In Categories Google

Mid-term Visits to Politics Category a Fraction of Presidential Election Traffic

November 06, 2006

As we head into mid-term elections this week, the visits to the Lifestyle - Politics category, a collection of 863 sites was nearly 1/3rd less then visits to the same category the Presidential Elections the first week of November 2004.... Continue reading...

Posted by Bill Tancer at 11:12 AM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Election2008