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American Idol - Game On!

March 21, 2007

We're down to eleven contestants and its game-on for our analysis of contestant search volume. The chart below shows search volume for the top eight contestants for the week ending 3/17/07 (Gina Glocksen, Jordin Sparks and Stephanie Edwards didn't make... Continue reading...

Tweet Posted by Bill Tancer at 12:12 PM | (1) | (1)
In Categories Television

Housing Starts in U.S. Looking Up

March 20, 2007

The commerce department released housing starts for February 2007 today, reporting that starts unexpectedly rebounded 9% from the previous month, after a 9 year low. Pouring a little cold water on the news, the Commerce department also reported that housing... Continue reading...

Tweet Posted by Bill Tancer at 07:30 PM | (0)
In Categories Economy

Google Base and Real Estate

March 08, 2007

John Battelle's post here alerted me to Google's push in the real estate space. As a search engine, Google plays a dominant role as the #1 source of traffic to the Hitwise U.S. Real Estate category (1,825 sites), providing close... Continue reading...

Tweet Posted by Bill Tancer at 03:11 PM | (4) | (0)
In Categories Real Estate

Antonella: A Search Phenom

March 07, 2007

My "Science of Search" column on Finding Antonella was posted today here. A quick follow-up for chart fans out there. In the article I talked about how last week, in light of the biggest market drop in five years, concerns... Continue reading...

Tweet Posted by Bill Tancer at 07:49 PM | (1) | (0)
In Categories Entertainment

Wikipedia, Search and School Homework

March 01, 2007

This week's Science of Search column is live on the TIME.com website (here). I'm sure this will touch a nerve with some, but in the article I decided to talk about a trend that we've noticed in the Hitwise Research... Continue reading...

Tweet Posted by Bill Tancer at 08:51 PM | (2) | (1)
In Categories Education