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Searches Growing for the Apple Tablet
January 08, 2010
The annual CES tradeshow is in full swing in Vegas with plenty of announcements about new gadgets, especially tablet computers. One that has not been officially announced yet but has received significant coverage in the media is the Apple Tablet. Last week, before the start of CES, the volume of searches for a portfolio of Apple Tablet related terms increased 8x.
As one would expect, the search terms around the Apple Tablet highlights the curiosity around the upcoming product with searchers seeking information about what the product is, the release date, and photos.
Yahoo! was the top website to receive traffic from the portfolio of Apple Tablet terms for the week ending January 2, 2010, followed by CNET News.com and the Los Angeles Times.
Apple is expected to officially announce the new product at the end of the month.
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What's interesting about this statistic is that whilst we experience a surge in demand for tablet pcs all the way from mid october, and grew consistnetly until the new year, it seems that search for apple boomed precisely after Christmas day,
One could speculate and say that people were holding out from buying presents for themselves until post christmas, as it was the item they really wanted
Posted by Tablet pc guy | May 31, 2011 10:49 AM