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Category Archives: Google
SOPA and PIPA: 10 Key Stats to Consider
January 18, 2012
According to Politico, approximately 7,000 sites are taking part in today’s protest against the House of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Sites including Wikipedia and Craigslist have “gone black” in protest... Continue reading...
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In Categories Google | Government | SOPA
Impact of paywall on NYTimes.com
April 11, 2011
After months of speculation, the paywall for The New York Times went live at 2pm on Monday, March 28th, which limits online readers (non-print subscribers) to 20 articles each month. For smartphone and tablet applications, only the top news section... Continue reading...
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In Categories Digital Subscriptions | Facebook | Google | News and Media | Search Engines | Social Media | Social Networking | Twitter
Holiday retail gets more social
January 05, 2011
With Facebook ranked as the #1 website in the US, retailers have been increasingly turning to social media to communicate with current and potential customers, particularly during the critical holiday shopping season. As a traffic driver, the Social Networking and... Continue reading...
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Posted by Heather Dougherty at 05:22 PM
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In Categories Facebook | Google | Holiday | Search Engines | Shopping and Classifieds | Social Media | Social Networking
Facebook.com generates nearly 1 in 4 page views in the US
November 19, 2010
In March, we reported an important milestone when the market share of visits to Facebook.com* surpassed Google.com*. Since then, we have continued to watch the growth of Facebook.com, which increased 60% from the same week last year and represented 1... Continue reading...
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Posted by Heather Dougherty at 04:22 PM
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In Categories Facebook | Google | Social Media | Social Networking | YouTube
Strength in numbers for group buying deals
April 23, 2010
Social commerce and group buying has become increasingly popular these days, on Tuesday, The New York Times reported that Groupon received an investment of $135 million dollars from Digital Sky Technologies. Additionally, last month, another group buying website, LivingSocial, received... Continue reading...
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In Categories Facebook | Google | Group Buying | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds
Google’s rumored Music service launch today
October 28, 2009
Google is expected to launch their music service this afternoon, so we decided to look at some of Google’s history with the Music category. Of course we all know that the majority of people start with Google for search -... Continue reading...
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Posted by Heather Dougherty at 03:54 PM
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Visits to Gmail surpass YouTube
March 10, 2009
For the past two weeks, the market share of US Internet visits to Gmail has been higher than visits to YouTube. Previously, YouTube consistently ranked 10th among all websites by market share of visits until the week ending Jan. 10,... Continue reading...
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In Categories Email | Facebook | Google
Holiday Search Referral Growth
January 16, 2009
Search engines accounted for the largest share of upstream traffic to the Retail 500 ahead of cross-shopping on other retail websites and email during the holiday months of November and December. An integral part of every retailer’s marketing strategy; the... Continue reading...
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In Categories Google | Holiday | Retail | Search Engines | Shopping and Classifieds
Retailers still keen on search
December 23, 2008
Search remains king for retailers during this holiday season, with referrals from search engines responsible for driving the largest share of visits to the Retail 500. Last week, 30% of the upstream traffic to the Retail 500 was from search... Continue reading...
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Posted by Heather Dougherty at 05:44 PM
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In Categories Google | Holiday | Retail | Search Engines
Will searches on new BlackBerry models predict success
October 28, 2008
The recent release of the G1 (aka Google phone) through T-Mobile and soon to be released Blackberry Bold & Storm prompted me to compare search activity among the new handheld devices. We often compare the search volume on new products... Continue reading...
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Google Chrome Stats
September 04, 2008
On Tuesday the news of the launch of Google’s browser Chrome flooded the major news outlets, both online & off, adding a new competitor to the browser wars between Firefox & IE. In one day, Google Chrome reached the #12... Continue reading...
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