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Americans are fascinated with the story of the ‘balloon boy’ as facts unfold in the highly unusual tale of a boy floating away in a mylar balloon - only to be discovered in the attic three days later. Searches jumped... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 02:09 PM
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In Categories News and Media | Search Strategies
TMZ was the first to break the news about Michael Jackson’s death last Thursday and scooped all of the major news outlets. As a result, traffic to TMZ reached a 3 year high, with visits increasing 5x in volume from... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 12:04 PM
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In Categories News and Media
This week kicked off with the Associated Press voicing concerns about how websites obtain permission to distribute content and share revenues. A debate has sparked about the ‘fair use’ doctrine (publishing a headline and/or sentence from story) and tracking the... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 03:41 PM
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In Categories News and Media | Search Engines
The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States was a major event for US Internet users on Tuesday since many needed to rely upon online streaming on news websites to view the event from work.... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 12:54 PM
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In Categories Election2008 | News and Media | Politics | Social Networking
The controversial photo spread of 15 year old Miley Cyrus (aka Hannah Montana) in Vanity Fair has been causing quite a commotion in the media since last weekend. The market share of visits to Vanityfair.com increased over 20x on Monday... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 08:54 AM
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In Categories News and Media
Articles on AdAge.com and New York magazine’s website yesterday discussed (sometimes mockingly) the short window of opportunity for ‘scandalites’ to leverage their fame into a revenue opportunity. I figured I would test the hypothesis through search data to see if... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 12:01 PM
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In Categories News and Media
Rumors are circulating once again that Digg.com is up for sale, this time naming Google and Microsoft as likely bidders for the company. And while these may just be rumors, it makes sense why both would be interested – Microsoft... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 10:26 AM
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In Categories News and Media
Landmark Communications has announced the sale of The Weather Channel and the accompanying website Weather.com, which may be worth up to $5 billion (cited by The New York Times). Several media conglomerates will probably step up to the plate to... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 05:34 PM
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In Categories News and Media