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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...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 05:30 PM | (0)
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...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 05:19 PM | (21) | (2)
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...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 05:22 PM | (1) | (0)
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...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 04:22 PM | (8) | (6)
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...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 05:40 PM | (3) | (1)
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...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 03:54 PM | (3)
In Categories Google | Music

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...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 02:16 PM | (3)
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...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 04:56 PM | (2) | (0)
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...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 05:44 PM | (0)
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...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 06:05 PM | (0)

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...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 11:47 AM | (2) | (0)
In Categories Google

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