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Climate Change – An Online Perspective

October 15, 2009

Today is Blog Action Day, an annual event that unites the world's bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. I... Continue reading.

Posted by Alan Long at 06:14 PM | (4) | (0)
In Category News and Media | Politics | weather

The King, the Angel and the Hoax.

June 30, 2009

Pop culture is a substantial driver of online behaviour, and the untimely death of the King of Pop Michael Jackson and the passing of Charlie’s Angels Farah Fawcett last week provided celebrity websites with large single day gains of Australian... Continue reading.

Posted by Alan Long at 01:24 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Celebrity | Entertainment | Google

Bad Boys, Politics and taking a Dive!

September 01, 2008

As quickly as we cover religion and sex (see last week's fast movers blog), politics raises it's head and demands attention. In this week's fast moving search terms the announcement of Sarah Palin as Republican, John McCain's running mate for... Continue reading.

Politics, Religion and Sex - Two out of Three isn't Bad

August 26, 2008

What an interesting week in the fast movers section. My parents always taught me to not discuss politics, religion and sex. This week I can avoid politics, but the other two are directly linked and have raised the interest of... Continue reading.

Oh what a week - Phelps and a Yeti!

August 18, 2008

The fastest moving search terms in Australia last week were: 1. bernie mac 2. olympic medal tally 3. medal tally 4. michael phelps 5. olympic results 6. bigfoot 7. falls festival 8. olympic schedule 9. yahoo7 olympics 10. royal Adelaide... Continue reading.

The Pressure Point of Fuel Prices

August 01, 2008

The increasing price of fuel to run our vehicles puts continued pressure on the household budget and while I begrudge paying high prices at the pump, just how far can the price go before we start to look at alternate... Continue reading.

Search results from Hitwise Intelligence - Bill Tancer - North America

McCain v. Obama: Search and Wikipedia

August 13, 2008

From our ABCNews Blog: What can search terms tell us about the current state of the presidential race? Unfortunately, due to confounding reasons or "search missions" (i.e., a candidate search may be a sign of support or a mission to... Continue reading.

Posted by Bill Tancer at 06:05 PM | (0) | (0)

Wikia - Jimbo takes on Google

August 03, 2007

This week's TIME column is up. I addressed Jimmy Wales recent comments about taking on the search industry. One of the most striking research points during my prep for the article was how dependent Wikipedia (a separate entity from Wikia)... Continue reading.

Posted by Bill Tancer at 04:52 PM | (2) | (0)

Google eBay - Data on the Tiff

June 14, 2007

Danny Sullivan's post here first alerted me to eBay's move this week to cease sponsored listing ads on Google alledgedly over a Google party that conflicted with eBay's shareholder meeting. A couple of data points to consider to shed light... Continue reading.

Posted by Bill Tancer at 02:11 PM | (2) | (5)

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.

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

Pearl Harbor and 9/11 - Search Term Insight

December 09, 2006

I received an email this week from Stephen Dubner over at Freakonomics regarding a post he was writing. Stephen posed a very interesting question... could our data shed any light on whether interest in 9/11 has diminished the remembrance of... Continue reading.

Posted by Bill Tancer at 02:04 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Education | News and Media

The Mystery of the Golden Spruce

July 21, 2006

Serendipity is a key component of my workday, I often set-out on an idea for a blog post, but upon surfing through our database of Internet usage often get derailed on to a completely different angle. Such was the case... Continue reading.

Posted by Bill Tancer at 05:08 PM | (1) | (0)
In Category Television

Search results from Hitwise Intelligence - Heather Dougherty - North America

YouTube Driving Majority of Visits to Vevo

January 06, 2010

Thanks to the ease of file sharing, media companies have been battling piracy to protect content like music, movies, and TV shows online. Last year, Hulu was launched by NBC Universal, News Corp., and The Walt Disney Co. as one... Continue reading.

Online pick-up artists

February 13, 2009

Sure, plenty of people use the Internet for online dating, but what about advice for meeting people offline? In the spirit of Valentine’s Day tomorrow, I decided to take a look at the search activity around pick-up lines. A sense... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 02:58 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Dating

YouTube surpasses MySpace as Music Destination

January 30, 2009

Yesterday my colleague Heather wrote a blog post about the top searches on YouTube; which are dominated by music-related searches. Along those same lines, I have been monitoring the top websites receiving traffic from a portfolio of 1300 band &... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 04:09 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Music | Social Networking | Video

Inauguration Day Stats

January 22, 2009

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.

Travis Barker Tops Fast Moving Search Terms Week Ending Sept 20, 2008

September 23, 2008

The Wall Street crisis and potential bailout is certainly top of mind for many consumers, but tragedy sent Travis Barker (former drummer of Blink 182 and star of MTV’s Meet the Barkers) to the top of Fast Moving Search Terms... Continue reading.

Joe Biden Paid Search Campaigns Begin

August 29, 2008

Once the major news outlets received the word that Obama had selected Senator Joe Biden of Delaware as his running mate, the announcement immediately resulted in a huge increase in the volume of searches for the search term ‘joe biden’... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 09:30 AM | (0) | (0)
In Category Election2008 | Politics

Geographic divide of social networks

July 23, 2008

Today is Facebook’s F8 conference is taking place in San Francisco, helping to keep the spotlight omnipresent upon the social networking category. In the US, MySpace continues to be the largest social network and the market share of visits was... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 04:10 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Social Networking

Nintendo Wii Fit brings fitness to the game playing masses

May 27, 2008

The latest video game craze is the release of Nintendo’s Wii Fit, a game focusing on exercise and fitness. First released in Japan in December, the Wii Fit became available in the US last week on May 21st, which caused... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 04:25 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Video Games

Coachella traffic turning to Ticketmaster as festival draws near

April 11, 2008

On Wednesday, everyone that is heading out to the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in two weeks received the news of a surprise addition to the line-up – Prince. Coachella is always surrounded by rumors about the line-up and... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 03:56 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Music

Wikipedia - a music portal?

April 04, 2008

A recent Reuters article discussed the missed opportunity by the music industry to capitalize upon searches for bands & artists that result in a visit to Wikipedia. A typical search result on a band or musician will display their own... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 01:33 PM | (2) | (0)
In Category Music

Super Bowl Quarterback Fascination

January 31, 2008

Everyone is getting geared up for Sunday’s Super Bowl and there is growing interest in each of the quarterbacks. Searches for ‘tom brady’ and ‘eli manning’ both jumped last week as curious fans looked for information on each of the... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 09:51 AM | (0) | (0)

Social Shopping Still Small, but Usage Increasing

December 19, 2007

The advent of consumer-generated content focused specifically on shopping has driven a significant amount of user reviews on a variety of blogs, retail sites, and comparison shopping engines. With the exception of some blogs, the majority of the reviewers lack... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 12:36 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Shopping and Classifieds

Search results from Hitwise Intelligence - Heather Hopkins - North America

Facebook and Friendfeed Stats on the Union

August 14, 2009

Following this week's 's announcement that Facebook will acquire Friendfeed, we wanted to share a few stats from the US (Robin posted UK stats earlier this week). First, let's put the size of the two sites in context. Facebook ranked... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 04:40 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Social Networks

Michael Jackson, Twitter and Misspellings

June 29, 2009

It has been widely reported that Michael Jackson's untimely death caused a flurry of online activity last week, downing Twitter, Wikipedia and TMZ and even causing problems for Google News. Searches for "michael jackson" ranked 7th among all search terms... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 06:05 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Personalities

Swine Flu Fears Rising

April 28, 2009

As the number of swine flu cases continues to climb so does public interest in the outbreak. The search term "swine flu" ranked #133 among the more than 1.5 million unique search terms we captured last week in the US.... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:41 AM | (0) | (1)

Twitter - Google Marriage - what would it mean?

April 08, 2009

To piggy back on a post my colleague across the pond, Robin Goad, did yesterday, we thought we'd revisit some of the stats to better understand how things would look if Google were to acquire Twitter. As the chart below... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:31 AM | (0) | (0)
In Category Search

Where to From Twitter

March 12, 2009

Is Twitter, as Eric Schmidt opined last week, the poor man's email? Is it a Facebook or Google killer? What can clickstream data tell us about how people are using Twitter and how does that compare to email, Facebook and... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:23 AM | (2) | (1)
In Category Social Networks

Britannica 2.0: Wikipedia Gets 97% of Encyclopedia Visits

January 23, 2009

Encyclopedia Britannica announced yesterday that it will embrace Web 2.0 with plans to allow individuals to submit edits for review to entries in the online encyclopedia. The announcement included sharp words from Britannica president, Jorge Cauz, for Google, criticizing the... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 12:42 PM | (1) | (0)
In Category Education

News Organizations Miss Opportunities to Gain Search Engine Traffic

November 07, 2008

Following from a blog post from my colleague from across the pond, Robin Goad, I looked at where consumers went in the final weeks of the election when searching for election coverage. The analysis reveals that news and media websites... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:09 AM | (4) | (0)
In Category News and Media

Top 20 Web 2.0 Websites

August 05, 2008

Two weeks ago when I posted an entry about Google's interest in Digg (the deal fell through) I wondered what other big web 2.0 properties remain independent. The following table lists 20 of the top Web 2.0 properties based on... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 11:31 AM | (2) | (3)
In Category Social Networks

Stock Checking Up Along with Financial Uncertainty

July 02, 2008

I was checking some of our category level statistics today as I thought we might see some interesting patterns in categories that are growing in the current financial climate. I noticed our Business & Finance category has experienced strong growth... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 10:46 AM | (0) | (0)
In Category Financial Services

Wikipedia - Where do People Go After Visiting Wikipedia?

March 27, 2008

Wikipedia ranked as the 13th most visited website in the US last week, accounting for about 1 in every 200 US Internet visits. The website is hugely popular and with so much traffic going through the site, it is important... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:45 AM | (8) | (1)
In Category Reference

Knol - Numbers to Lend Context to Google's Announcement

December 17, 2007

Last week's announcement that Google would launch Knol, dubbed by most as a Wikipedia competitor, has sparked controversy and even consternation among some. To provide context to the announcement (and a clear rationale for why Google would launch the service)... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:10 AM | (4) | (2)
In Category Reference | Search

Dallas Cowboys Beat Patriots Online

December 05, 2007

I am getting ready for a trip to Boston for the holidays and given New England's recent spate of good luck, I feel the need to brush up on some sports news. I can't compete on actual knowledge of football... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 05:00 PM | (3) | (0)
In Category Sports

Guitar Hero 3 Most Searched for Video Game

November 08, 2007

Guitar Hero 3 launched 28th October and has since garnered $115 for Activision whose chairman today revealed that Activision has shipped more of the Guitar Hero 3 game than any other in its history. In short order Guitar Hero 3... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 09:01 AM | (1) | (0)
In Category Shopping & Classifieds | Video & Games

MRSA Hand Washing Message Lost Online

October 23, 2007

The tragic death of a Virginia teenager and a federal report issued last week raised public concerns about MRSA also known as Staph Infection. I've been blogging for Hitwise in the UK for the past couple of years and MRSA... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:29 AM | (4) | (0)
In Category Health & Medical

Search results from Hitwise Intelligence - Heather Hopkins - UK

Global Warming UK Traffic Goes to US Sites

July 05, 2007

We issued a news release last week about the increased interest online in global warming, recycling and carbon footprints. I wanted to highlight and delve further into one of the points from that release. The increased interest in global warming... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 06:00 AM | (0) | (0)
In Category Search

Chris Benoit Tops UK Searches

July 02, 2007

This morning, I had never heard of Chris Benoit, but it appears I may be alone. The search term "chris benoit" ranked #28 among all search terms last week in the UK, and was second only to "weather" among non-branded... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 11:30 AM | (0) | (0)
In Category Entertainment

Competition 2.0 - Who Are Print Media Websites Competing With Online? News & Media Post 2 of 3

March 06, 2007

Saddam Hussein's execution - aired around the world through blogs and on YouTube - made YouTube a primary news source for millions of consumers. Newspapers were once the domain for breaking news, but often the medium and time constraints prevent... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 04:34 PM | (1) | (2)
In Category News and Media

Search Engines Larger than Adult Sites - Stats from London Internet Peeps Event

January 30, 2007

Last night I gave a two minute talk at one of Robert Loch's Internet Peeps events. The topic that I, and 15 others, were asked to speak to was "The Future of the Internet". A lofty topic... To get a... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 12:25 PM | (5) | (0)
In Category Search Engines

Polonium 210 and Thallium Searches Soar Following Tragic Death of Alexander Litvinenko

November 27, 2006

Over the weekend, our conversations with friends were dominated by talk of the tragic death last week of Alexander Litvinenko. The story keeps getting murkier and seems to be straight from a Bond film. The former Russian spy, who was... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 06:16 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category News and Media

Daniel Craig's Blonde Bond Popular Online: Opportunities for Search Marketers

November 23, 2006

We issued a news release today on the most searched for celebrities in the UK. Daniel Craig came in at #2 on the list (behind Faith Brown, contestant on I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here). In putting together... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 10:00 AM | (5) | (0)
In Category Entertainment

Wikipedia - Where do People Go After Visiting Wikipedia?

October 11, 2006

Last night I was chatting with John Hornbaker of Parthenon Computing about flow after an Internet Peeps dinner. He believes that people will start paying more attention to flow to understand how people are moving around the web. We agreed... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 02:12 PM | (1) | (0)
In Category General Thought Leadership

Bebo Closing the Gap with eBay as Most Searched for UK Brand

October 04, 2006

In doing a demo of Hitwise this week, we noticed that Bebo is catching up quickly to eBay as the most searched for brand in the UK. Since May, the term "bebo" has ranked #2 in the share of UK... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 03:40 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Branding

Internet Usage Data as a Measure of Offline Advertising Effectiveness - (Part 1 of 3)

September 27, 2006

"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half" famously opined John Wanamaker. This quote is reportedly from the late 1800's - have things improved? Anyone who has spoken to me in... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 11:29 AM | (3) | (0)

UCAS Website Visits Soar Yesterday - Ranking at 37 Overall in the UK

August 18, 2006

Yesterday, students up and down the country received their A Level results and while the news is focussed on controversy over the record number of A grades, market share of UK visits to the UCAS website soared as disappointed students... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 11:09 AM | (0) | (0)
In Category Education

MySpace UK Update

June 23, 2006

Earlier this week I spoke at the Engagement Alliance event, What MySpace Means. David Tebbutt and Hillary Johnson provide a nice run down of the event. Anthony Mayfield sagely suggested that I post some of the charts from my presentation... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 01:04 PM | (2) | (1)
In Category Computers and Internet

BBC Favoured News Source But Wikipedia and Flickr Growing in Importance in the UK

January 05, 2006

It will come as no great surprise that UK visits to News and Media sites are event driven, with the most significant spikes in visits to News and Media sites in 2005 occurring alongside major news events. The news events... Continue reading.

Posted by Heather Hopkins at 07:13 AM | (0) | (0)

Search results from Hitwise Intelligence - LeeAnn Prescott - US

Google Traffic To Wikipedia up 166% Year over Year

February 16, 2007

We have been asked to shed some insight on how much traffic Wikipedia receives from Google. Hitwise data showed that for the week ending Feb 10, 2007, 70% of Wikipedia's upstream visits came from search engines, with 50% from Google... Continue reading.

Posted by LeeAnn Prescott at 03:08 PM | (8) | (2)
In Category Education | Search

One-Hit Wonders - Top Search Terms of 2006

February 01, 2007

For my final post on the top search terms of 2006, I thought it would be fun to look at the 'one-hit wonders' of search - strange discoveries or events that drove people to search more information for a week... Continue reading.

Posted by LeeAnn Prescott at 05:26 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Search

2006 Top Search Terms - A Closer Look

January 31, 2007

Last week we released the Hitwise list of top search terms for the year. A closer look at the "head of the tail" search queries can offer insight into user behavior online, show trends in website popularity, as well as... Continue reading.

Posted by LeeAnn Prescott at 10:31 AM | (3) | (1)
In Category Search

Microsoft Vista Searches up 53%, Wikipedia Receives Nearly 7% of Vista Search Traffic

January 30, 2007

Today Microsoft Vista is available for purchase for the first time. In anticipation of the launch, last week the share of US Internet searches for 'windows vista' increased by 53% from the previous week (week ending 1/27/07 vs. week ending... Continue reading.

Posted by LeeAnn Prescott at 01:17 PM | (1) | (0)
In Category Computers and Internet

Yahoo! Answers Captures 96% of Q and A Market Share

December 28, 2006

Search Engine Land had an interesting post about question and answer sites today that linked to a thorough reviewfrom MIT Technology Review of six of these sites. Yahoo! Answers was the clear winner, which is can partly be attributed to... Continue reading.

Posted by LeeAnn Prescott at 05:27 PM | (2) | (0)
In Category Education

Social Networking Sites Recover from September Decline, Facebook visits up 16%

November 08, 2006

Today we released the Hitwise US Consumer Generated Media Report, which examines trends in social networking, photo hosting and sharing, and online video. According to the report, the market share of visits to the top 20 social networking sites accounted... Continue reading.

Posted by LeeAnn Prescott at 01:41 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Community

Wikipedia and Academic Research

October 17, 2006

The market share of US visits to Wikipedia has been growing steadily over the past few years. In September 2006, it ranked as the 20th most visited internet domain in the US, up 204% since September 2005. Search engines were... Continue reading.

Posted by LeeAnn Prescott at 08:58 AM | (0) | (0)
In Category Education

Del.icio.us Traffic More Than Doubled Since January

August 10, 2006

Traffic to del.icio.us has more than doubled since Yahoo! acquired it in December 2005. According to Hitwise data from its sample of 10 million US Internet users, the market share of visits to del.icio.us was up 122% from January 2006... Continue reading.

Posted by LeeAnn Prescott at 03:52 PM | (1) | (0)
In Category Audience

BAPE Shoes and Hoodies Catch on in US

August 03, 2006

This week I noticed the term 'bape shoes' in a search term report. Since I was not familiar with this brand, I decided to investigate. BAPE, or A Bathing Ape, is a Japanese footwear and apparel brand that has developed... Continue reading.

Posted by LeeAnn Prescott at 11:37 AM | (0) | (0)
In Category Shopping and Classifieds

Fan Fiction: Another Form of Consumer Generated Content

April 14, 2006

On Tuesday I was interviewed by CNBC about consumer generated content, and while I was prepared to talk about online videos, MySpace, and even blogs, one of the topics I was asked about was fan fiction. I had barely looked... Continue reading.

Posted by LeeAnn Prescott at 04:01 PM | (0) | (1)

Winter Olympics spur "Italy" searches

February 23, 2006

Television coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino Italy has included a good deal of footage and information about the surrounding region and Italian culture in general. Given this coverage, it's not surprising that Internet users turned to search... Continue reading.

Posted by LeeAnn Prescott at 01:35 PM | (0) | (0)

SNL Chronicles of Narnia Rap causes YouTube to Overtake Google Video Search

December 28, 2005

Video Search has continued to take off since my post on the Chinese Students Singing Backstreet Boys. Visits to Google Video search have increased by 48% for the week ending 12/24/05 compared to the week of that post (week ending... Continue reading.

Posted by LeeAnn Prescott at 04:30 PM | (0) | (1)
In Category Entertainment | News and Media | Search

Googlebombing "failure" vs. "miserable failure"

October 18, 2005

Last July, "failure" overtook "miserable failure" as one of the leading "Google bombs." A Google bomb occurs when a large number of webmasters link a specific word or phrase to a particular webpage, leading to a high rank in Google's... Continue reading.

Posted by LeeAnn Prescott at 11:18 AM | (1) | (0)

Wikipedia, The New York Times, and Hurricane Katrina

October 05, 2005

An article appeared recently that mentioned Hitwise data in reference to Wikipedia and the New York Times. Indeed, Wikipedia recently eclipsed the New York Times in terms of market share of Internet visits as shown in the chart below. But... Continue reading.

Posted by LeeAnn Prescott at 11:50 AM | (0) | (0)

Search results from Hitwise Intelligence - Robin Goad - UK

Online Christmas shopping: top towns

December 17, 2009

The last four weeks have been the busiest of the year for online retailers, and this presents a good opportunity showcase our new UK Postal Areas data. This allows us to segment website and category visits by UK Postal Area... Continue reading.

Who will win The X Factor 2009?

December 04, 2009

In this guest post, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst Richard Seymour uses our data to try and predict who will win this year’s X Factor... We have a number of Hitwise tools and data sets that we can use to... Continue reading.

Searches for climate change and energy efficiency (Blog Action Day)

October 15, 2009

Today is Blog Action Day and, as with last year, Alan Long has beaten me to it with an excellent post on this year’s topic, climate change. I’m taking a similar approach, looking at climate changes related searches in the... Continue reading.

Fourth plinth installation popular online

July 08, 2009

UK Internet visits to One & Other, the website that is streaming live webcam footage from Antony Gormley's art installation on Trafalgar square’s fourth plinth, shot up on Monday - and increased further yesterday. It was the 698th most popular... Continue reading.

Posted by Robin Goad at 02:55 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Art | Video

Iran searches and Twitter

June 23, 2009

Given the current political situation in the country, we were expecting to see a spike in searches for ‘iran’ last week. As the chart below illustrates, there were more searches for Iran during the week ending 20/06/09 than for Iraq,... Continue reading.

Local Internet data: Liverpool example

June 15, 2009

Last month I had the pleasure of speaking at the Digital Editors Network forum, an event organized by Francois Nel from the Journalism Leaders Program at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). One of the topics that came up during... Continue reading.

Initial Bing stats

June 08, 2009

Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, was announced by Steve Balmer on May 28 and officially launched on June 3. I’ve held off putting up our initial UK statistics until now for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I couldn’t think of... Continue reading.

Top 100 student websites in the UK

June 02, 2009

Yesterday I received a call from Sridhar Venkatapuram of the London Business School asking me about the online behaviour of students in the UK. I mentioned on Twitter that I was pulling a list of the 100 most popular websites... Continue reading.

UK traffic to Polish websites declining

May 28, 2009

Last year we highlighted the massive growth in UK Internet traffic to Polish websites, noting how the increase in visits to a custom category local and expat sites reflected the growth of the Polish immigrant population in the UK. Things... Continue reading.

Swine flu searches increase 58-fold

May 05, 2009

UK Internet searches for ‘swine flu’ increased 58-fold last week, making it Britain’s fastest moving search term. Of the 10.9 million distinct search terms we tracked in the UK last week, ‘swine flu’ ranked 20th. As the chart below illustrates,... Continue reading.

Online video traffic up 41%; BBC iPlayer 22nd most popular UK website

March 19, 2009

UK Internet traffic to Video websites has increased by 40.7% over the last 12 months. During February 2009, 1 in every 35 UK Internet visits went to a specialist Video website, up from 1 in every 50 in February 2008.... Continue reading.

Mobile phones are the most searched for consumer electronics product; Apple the top brand

March 18, 2009

Today we have another guest post from our UK Client Intelligence Analyst and resident gadget expert, Richard Seymour. At Hitwise we are able to look into the fascinating ways that search data can provide insights and inform decisions about our... Continue reading.

TV and Games are UK's most searched for subjects

March 09, 2009

For our second guest posting on the UK blog, I’d like to hand over to Richard Seymour, Hitwise UK Client Intelligence Analyst, to take us through some of the research he has carried out recently on UK Search Engines. For... Continue reading.

Wikipedia and its imitators

February 05, 2009

Wikipedia is now the 14th most visited websites in the UK and the 5th largest recipient of traffic from search engines. The social encyclopedia’s success, combined with the popularity of wikis in general, has led an explosion in the number... Continue reading.

Posted by Robin Goad at 04:30 PM | (2) | (0)
In Category Education

Searching for the recession

January 28, 2009

Now that the UK is officially in recession, we thought it would be a good time to look at downturn-related searches. The table below charts the volume of searches for 4 key terms over the last 12 months, and of... Continue reading.

Shahrukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai most searched for Bollywood stars

January 07, 2009

Last week UK Internet searches for a portfolio of 100+ Bollywood stars was 68% higher than a year ago. Here is a list of the top 20 most searched for actors and actresses from that portfolio over the 4 weeks... Continue reading.

Healthy New Year? Gym traffic up, diet searches down

January 05, 2009

Happy New Year! Many readers - including the lucky ones who got a Wii Fit for Christmas - will be hoping for a healthy new year, and they’re not alone. It’s the time for New Year’s Resolutions, and getting fit... Continue reading.

Wii Music to be the next Wii Fit?

November 21, 2008

Wii Music, the recently launched music making game for the Nintendo Wii, has already raced into a battle with our list of top 10 games from October. This is extremely impressive as the game was only released in the UK... Continue reading.

Posted by Robin Goad at 06:38 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Gadgets | Games

John Sergeant and Strictly Come Dancing online

November 21, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, when we predicted that Diana Vickers will win X-Factor, I opened my blog post thus: ‘Now that we’ve got the American election and the Glenrothes by-election out of the way, we can finally direct our... Continue reading.

UK Internet searches for the US Election

November 04, 2008

After months of campaigning, Americans are today finally voting for the 44th president of their country. The US research team have been doing a great job monitoring search behaviour across the pond, so I thought I’d have a look at... Continue reading.

X Factor vs. Strictly Come Dancing 2008

October 30, 2008

The annual pre-Christmas battle for Saturday night tea time TV supremacy is well under way. In the red corner: ITV’s The X Factor, with Cheryl Cole replacing Sharon Osbourne on the judging panel. In the blue corner: the BBC’s Strictly... Continue reading.

The cult of Robert Peston and BBC blogs

October 07, 2008

Is Robert Peston - "the face of the credit crunch" - the hardest working man at the BBC? The corporation’s business editor starts his day at breakfast time on the Today Programme and doesn’t seem to finish until bed time... Continue reading.

Impact of the T-mobile G1 (google phone) launch

September 30, 2008

With Robin on holiday at the moment, he has asked me, Richard Seymour, the Client Intelligence Analyst for Hitwise to take the unenviable task of filling the Hitwise UK analyst blog void for the week! Luckily with the launch of... Continue reading.

Posted by Robin Goad at 11:19 AM | (3) | (0)
In Category Gadgets | Mobile phones | Shopping and Classifieds

Fast moving search terms: Strictly Come Dancing, Pierrepoint, Most Haunted

September 01, 2008

The 10 fastest moving search terms in the UK last week were: 1. strictly come dancing 2. us open 3. bournemouth air show 4. www.bebo.co.uk 5. most haunted live 6. albert pierrepoint 7. most haunted 8. you tube.com 9. euromillions... Continue reading.

Fast moving search terms: Olympics, celebrities and exams

August 11, 2008

No prizes for guessing what event dominated the fast moving search term list in the UK last week. Here’s the top 10. 1. beijing 2008 olympic games 2. olympics 3. craig jones 4. morgan freeman 5. olympics 2008 6. bernie... Continue reading.

Movie & TV sequels: search behaviour and the retail gap

July 29, 2008

Yesterday we highlighted the appearance of four Batman-related terms this week’s top 10 fast moving search terms chart. A couple of weeks ago we posted about the relationship between searches for the recently released film Adulthood and its predecessor, Kidulthood.... Continue reading.

Top 5 web 2.0 sites account for 1 in every 15 UK Internet visits

July 22, 2008

We issued a press release today containing our latest social network market share data. Facebook continues to grow its market share in the UK and reached a new high of 45% in June. However, that growth has been at the... Continue reading.

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In Category Education | Social networks | Video

Food websites grow as self-sufficiency gains popularity

July 18, 2008

Almost a year ago we investigated the seasonality of popular recipes. Recent analysis for 2008 reveals a similar pattern, with searches for cake recipes featuring heavily again this summer. However, it was interesting to note that visits to the Food... Continue reading.

Hottest bands on the social networks and music blogs

July 10, 2008

A few months ago we posted a list of the top 10 band / artist searches sending traffic to MySpace, the primary destination of searches for new artists. We’ve decided to expand the list to cover our whole Social Networking... Continue reading.

TV spoilers and Digital Spy

June 25, 2008

Anyone who uses Wikipedia or IMDB frequently will be used to the ‘spoiler warning’ notification when reading an entry on a book or film. While notifications in these and similar websites are designed to help you avoid spoilers, there are... Continue reading.

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In Category News and Media | Search | TV

Google holiday logos and Wikipedia growth

June 17, 2008

When looking at our Fast Moving Search Terms list a few weeks ago, I was surprised to see the term ‘walter gropius’ at the top of the list for All Categories. Why the sudden interest in the founder of the... Continue reading.

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In Category Education | Google | Search

Game cheats: GTA4, Mario Kart Wii and Halo 3

May 20, 2008

Following the recent launches of two popular video games, Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA4) and Nintendo's Mario Kart Wii, we noticed an interesting search pattern. As you can see from the chart below, searches for the game itself peak during... Continue reading.

London Mayoral elections: what does the Internet data say?

April 22, 2008

A lot has been made about how the candidates and voters for the London Mayoral elections on May 1st have embraced the Internet like never before - at least in British political terms, as this is one area where the... Continue reading.

Brits more interested in US presidential race than domestic politics

February 29, 2008

UK Internet users are more interested in the United States presidential race than politics at home. Senator Barack Obama is the most searched for political figure in the UK, receiving three times as many searches on his name last week... Continue reading.

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In Category News and Media | Politics | Search

SEO for Mother’s Day

February 26, 2008

Mothering Sunday falls early this year, but searches for the term ‘mothers day’ have been on the rise for a few weeks, and last week were 6% higher than the equivalent week last year. The screenshot below illustrates the results... Continue reading.

VideoJug: video search and 'how to' queries

February 21, 2008

With the ongoing popularity of video sharing websites like YouTube and information sharing websites such as Wikipedia, it was only a matter of time before the two were combined. The latest phenomenon gaining interest online is ‘videopedia’, a range of... Continue reading.

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In Category Search | Video

UK Polish Internet usage on the rise

February 20, 2008

Estimates as to the number of Polish people in the UK range from half a million to over a million. Mass immigration from Central and Eastern Europe has led to a rush for the ‘Polish Pound’, with everyone from multinational... Continue reading.

Brit Awards, MySpace and the top new bands

February 19, 2008

The Brit Awards take place tomorrow evening and there are three awards up for the public vote: best British Breakthrough Act, best British Live Act, and best British Single. The latter is tricky to analyze using search data, but I... Continue reading.

Football: transfer traffic and the Kevin Keegan effect

January 21, 2008

We’re currently in the middle of a seasonal peak in traffic to our Sports – Football category. As the chart below illustrates, football (soccer) websites are receiving their highest level of traffic since the season started last summer, and slightly... Continue reading.

Act on C02 campaign an environmental success

January 11, 2008

A lot of new years’ resolutions will have included a promise to reduce carbon footprints. Therefore it was a shrewd move by the Department of Transport to choose this time of year to launch Act on CO2. As the chart... Continue reading.

Alesha Dixon to win Strictly Come Dancing?

December 07, 2007

A couple of weeks ago we posted about the rivalry between the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing and ITV’s The X-Factor, including a promise to make some predictions as to who would win the shows based our search data. Well, Strictly... Continue reading.

Christmas market search trends

December 05, 2007

The setting up of a Christmas market just around the corner from the Hitwise UK office made me realize just how popular these seasonal attractions have become. According to Wikipedia, the first Christmas market was held in Dresden in 1434,... Continue reading.

Top Halloween Costumes for 2007

October 24, 2007

My colleague Eva Stringleman noticed that "halloween costumes" was the fourteenth most popular search term in the UK sending traffic to our Apparel category last week - a very high ranking in an industry dominated by brand searches. So following... Continue reading.

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In Category Shopping and Classifieds

Rugby searches overtake football following England's semi-final victory

October 15, 2007

Following the England rugby team’s semi-final victory over France this weekend, last week there were more UK Internet searches for the term 'rugby' than the term 'football' for the first time in 2 years. There has been a six-fold increase... Continue reading.

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In Category Search | Sport | Women

Control, Manchester and Factory Records

October 09, 2007

Last week I was in Manchester for the excellent Manchester Digital conference. As a music fan, the city is forever linked in my mind with the Factory Records and the late Anthony H. Wilson. There have been a number of... Continue reading.

Burma charity response

October 04, 2007

The crisis in Burma has caught the attention of the press and public alike. Searches for 'burma' increased 17 fold last week, with the largest proportion of traffic going to Wikipedia and the news sites. However, the fourth and fifth... Continue reading.

Posted by Robin Goad at 10:59 AM | (1) | (0)
In Category Charities | Search

Students flock to ucas.co.uk and social networks following exam results

August 17, 2007

A-Level results were released yesterday with all the usual fanfare and criticism. Unsurprisingly, visits to ucas.co.uk - the homepage of the organization that administers university admissions - shot up as students went online to confirm their university places, or, in... Continue reading.

Posted by Robin Goad at 01:13 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Education

Search results from Hitwise Intelligence - Sandra Hanchard - Asia Pacific

Government website visits up 10.4% in Australia year-on-year in March 2009

May 07, 2009

We've just published a new Hitwise Australia Online Government report, demonstrating that government website visits were up 10.4% year-on-year in March 209. This growth suggests that the community is finding online government services increasingly useful. Australian visits to government websites... Continue reading.

Posted by Sandra Hanchard at 12:19 PM | (0) | (0)
In Category Community | Government

Bushfire Searches: 4 week window of peak community interest

April 23, 2009

The Victorian bushfires in February 2009 demonstrated how Australians turned to the Internet to get vital information surrounding a crisis. Search data reflected strong community awareness of the Victorian Country Fire Authority, with ‘cfa’ the fastest moving search term driving... Continue reading.

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In Category Community | Government | News and Media

Bricks and Mortar Retailers in Australia are winning the online battle

March 02, 2009

Last week we released our latest Hitwise APAC report, Retail Review Christmas 2008 – Insights for Retail Planning. A key takeout from the report was the significant shift towards Bricks and Mortar Retailers during Christmas 2008, as traditional brands began... Continue reading.

Posted by Sandra Hanchard at 11:23 AM | (0) | (0)
In Category Shopping and Classifieds

Innovation Review – Uptake of Knowledge Management Websites

September 12, 2008

Terry Cutler's Innovation Review was released in Australia this week, containing a "blueprint for a remodelling of Australia's innovation system". The report alludes to the value of collaboration to Australian productivity, in particular "the 'mass collaboration' that is being increasingly... Continue reading.

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In Category Innovation

Beijing Olympics - Who's Capitalizing on the online Games?

August 09, 2008

There is no doubt that the Olympics represents a major online media opportunity. As this article in ZDNet Asia points out, search engines have been geared up to distribute the heightened sports-related terms within their respective advertising networks. My colleague,... Continue reading.

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In Category Beijing Olympics

Employment markets and predictability - Hong Kong visits a sure thing

June 19, 2008

One of our favourite topics on the blog is predictability – indeed I'm working my way through an essay Bill mentioned on this topic, The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb. While Black Swan covers themes such as outlier events and... Continue reading.

Posted by Sandra Hanchard at 10:16 AM | (2) | (0)
In Category Employment and Training

What are Australians Doing Online? Global Benchmarks

February 22, 2008

This week we've looked at Hitwise data that provides a snapshot of the leading industries that Australian Internet users visit. The update includes comparisons with major overseas markets, the United States and United Kingdom. Here are some of our findings:... Continue reading.

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Anytime on VOLT launches at #5 spot in Shopping - Video & Games

April 24, 2007

The recent launch of Anytime on VOLT, a video-on-demand service from Anytime and Fairfax Digital grabbed the attention of Australian Internet users, debuting at #5th position in the Hitwise Shopping & Classifieds - Video and Games industry with 4.09% share... Continue reading.

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In Category Video On Demand

Rudd, Howard and Obama: Domestic and International Online Political Mix

February 14, 2007

We've had an interesting week in terms of Australian politics, namely the opinion polls that have put the opposition leader, Kevin Rudd ahead of incumbent, John Howard as preferred prime minister, and the foray over Howard's criticism of US senator,... Continue reading.

Posted by Sandra Hanchard at 10:38 AM | (1) | (0)
In Category Politics

Disaggregation: Lessons from Wikipedia for Publishers

December 08, 2006

A post from Tim O'Reilly caught my eye this week, The Economics of Disaggregation which contrasts the benefits of disaggregation from both the consumer and producer point of view. Firstly - disaggregation refers to the unbundling of product for consumption,... Continue reading.

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In Category News and Media

Peter Carey, Droit Moral and Google Book Search

April 07, 2006

One of my favourite authors is Peter Carey, of Bacchus Marsh in Victoria, and long-term resident in New York City. He's just published, Theft, a "love" story about Butcher Bones, divorced and out-of-fashion artist, his idiot savant brother, and mysterious... Continue reading.

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Weather, Web 2.0 and Wikipedia: AU Online Media Update

March 25, 2006

The release of Senator Connan's discussion paper, Meeting the Digital Challenge, prompted discussion about the protection of media diversity this week. I decided to look at our Hitwise data to show where big media dominates and where new players are... Continue reading.

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Search results from Hitwise To Go - Asia Pacific

And the F1 Winner online is… the Grid Girl?

September 30, 2009

Louis Hamilton may have won the Singapore F1 Grand Prix, but Low Shu Min, SingTel’s Top Grid Girl 2009 certainly won online. The term ‘low shu min’ was the fastest moving search term across All Categories for the week ending... Continue reading.

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Wikipedia – Britannica or Perez Hilton?

July 31, 2009

A look at the Hitwise Australia search terms sending visits to Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com) highlights how much the collaborative encyclopedia relies on entertainment and celebrity related content. Fifteen out of the top twenty terms sending traffic to the site were entertainment... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 06:42 PM

Emma Watson Hogwarts the Limelight

July 17, 2009

Despite all of his wizardly powers it seems Harry Potter is having trouble hogging all the limelight leading up to New Zealand’s blockbuster premiere with weekly search term share of traffic to All Categories for ‘Emma Watson’ surging over 300%... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 01:06 PM

Oink Oink

May 10, 2009

Although the World Health Organisation has changed its reference from ‘swine flu virus’ to ‘influenza A (H1N1)’ in order to lessen the negative impact on pork sales, it may be too late online. According to Hitwise New Zealand, ‘swine flu’... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 04:11 PM

Anna Bligh Tweets to Victory

April 06, 2009

If you need any more evidence that Twitter (twitter.com) is bursting into mainstream consciousness, here it is. A look at the top ten variations of the newly re-elected Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh shows a distinct social networking flavour over the... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 02:46 PM
In Category Government

Obama Mania

January 27, 2009

As 2 million Americans in Washington witnessed the historic inauguration of president elect, Barack Obama on 20 January 2009 – we were also watching down under, online. According to Hitwise, Barack Obama (www.barackobama.com), the campaign website of president elect Barack... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 10:52 AM
In Category Politics

A Vampy Holiday Season

January 05, 2009

The teen vampire movie Twilight seems to be a hit on screen and online over the holiday season. According to Hitwise Australia, ‘twilight’ was the most searched for movie over the 4 weeks ending 03/01/2009 that resulted in traffic to... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 02:54 PM
In Category Movies

Google Chrome New Zealand’s Fastest Moving Search Term

September 15, 2008

The launch of Google’s new browser Chrome, has spiked interest amongst New Zealand Internet users, with ‘google chrome’ ranking as New Zealand’s fastest moving search term during the week ending 06/09/2008. Other searches referencing this new browser, including ‘chrome’, and... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 12:38 PM
In Category Computers and Internet

Kiwis Searching for New Zealand

June 25, 2008

According to Hitwise New Zealand, ‘air new zealand’ and ‘new zealand herald’ were the two most popular search variations containing ‘new zealand’, ahead of the generic term ‘new zealand’ for the 12 weeks ending 21/06/2008. Other variations included ‘new zealand... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 06:02 PM

Edison Chen – How Singaporeans Search for the Scandal

February 27, 2008

Over the past several weeks, there has been an explosion of Internet searches for Edison Chen, who is the latest Asian star to be featured in a celebrity sex scandal. As Hitwise Singapore reports, the website benefiting most from this... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 08:45 AM
In Category Search

Looking for Love in Singapore – Searches for Dating

September 12, 2007

Recent research from Hitwise Singapore reveals that for the week ending September 8, 2007 Singaporelovelinks.com received over 37% of traffic when people searched for the term ‘dating’. Interestingly, Wikipedia.com received the second highest volume of traffic from the term, instead... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 12:58 PM
In Category Dating

What 18-24 Year Old Australians Want: Mail, Photos and Information

August 30, 2007

For the week ending August 25, 2007, online audience analysis from Hitwise Australia reveals that there is a higher percentage of visits from 18-24 year old women that went to MySpace Mail, and photo sharing website Slide.com then men of... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 11:34 AM

Yahoo! Hong Kong and Social Networking Sites receive highest percentage of external visits from Google HK

August 29, 2007

For the week ending August 28 2007, Hitwise Hong Kong reveals that aside from other Google properties, Google Hong Kong sent the largest percentage of visits to Yahoo! Hong Kong, who captured 3.56% of Google Hong Kong's downstream traffic, followed... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 10:15 AM
In Category Social Networking

Search results from Hitwise To Go - UK

Searches for 'federico macheda' increased 55-fold in a week

April 16, 2009

2 of the top 3 fastest moving search terms in the social networking category for the w/e 11/04/09 were related to the 17-year old Italian Manchester United footballer, Federico Macheda: (#1 'federico macheda' and #3 'macheda'). After his recent winning... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 04:00 PM
In Category Sports

Searches for 'mothers day'

March 23, 2009

For the second year in a row the number one site receiving traffic from UK searches for 'mothers day' last week was Woodlands Junior School (27.6%), followed by Wikipedia (19.4%) and Marks & Spencer (7.8%). Compared to last year, when... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 02:00 PM
In Category Shopping & Classifieds

Barack Obama is in The White House

January 29, 2009

According to Hitwise UK, the official White House website was one of the fastest moving sites of last week ending the 24th January. UK visits increased by 525% over a week. The spike in interest is not surprising following President... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 04:37 PM
In Category News and Media

Google Doodle for Rene Magritte

November 25, 2008

Last week Google celebrated the 110th birthday of Rene Magritte by featuring some of his masterpieces in the Google logo. Hitwise UK can reveal that ‘Magritte’ was the fastest moving search term last week, with Wikipedia being the most popular... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 10:56 AM
In Category Art

Wikipedia picking up interest in 'credit crunch'

October 08, 2008

Recent research from Hitwise UK, shows that searches for 'credit crunch' reached their highest ever level last week, increasing three-fold over the last four weeks. 7 of the top 10 websites receiving traffic from searches for 'credit crunch' are news... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 09:30 AM
In Category Business & Finance

Sarah Palin more popular than Barack Obama in the UK

September 01, 2008

According to Hitwise UK, UK Internet searches for 'sarah palin', the recently announced Republican vice-presidential nominee, were 45% higher last week, than those for the previously most searched-for US nominee 'barack obama'. The top website capturing visits from searches for... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 03:30 PM
In Category Politics

Amy Winehouse raises awareness of emphysema online

July 01, 2008

According to Hitwise UK, news that the singer Amy Winehouse may be in the early stages of emphysema has prompted a lot of interest online in the illness. Searches for 'emphysema' increased by 111% during the week ending 28 June,... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 09:45 AM
In Category Entertainment | Health | News and Media

46664.com fourth most visited site in Bands & Artists

June 30, 2008

Recent research from Hitwise UK shows that searches for 'nelson mandela', ahead of the 46664 concert celebrating the former South African president's 90th birthday, increased eight-fold during the week ending 28 June. 46% of searches for 'nelson mandela' visited Wikipedia... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 12:43 PM
In Category Entertainment | Music

Searches for 'ufo' take off as The National Archives release UFO files

May 20, 2008

According to Hitwise UK internet searches for ‘ufo’ have increased by 267% since The National Archives released “a wide range of UFO-related documents covering the years 1978–2002” on 14th May. The Sun newspaper captured the largest share in traffic (12.28%)... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 09:41 AM
In Category Government | News and Media

Searches for 'mario kart wii' double

April 14, 2008

According to Hitwise UK, searches for 'mario kart wii' increased by 134% last week, following the release of the racing game by Nintendo. GAME is the top retailer to receive traffic from searches for the term, over the four weeks... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 09:54 AM
In Category Entertainment | Shopping & Classifieds

US Searches for 'leona lewis' increase by 90%

March 28, 2008

US Internet searches for 'leona lewis' continue to rise as the British popstar topped the US Charts this week. Searches have increased by 90% over the four weeks ending 22 March. Youtube is the top website receiving visits from searches... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 11:57 AM
In Category Entertainment | Music

Searches for 'tibet' quadruple

March 27, 2008

Recent research from Hitwise UK shows that searches for 'tibet' quadrupled this week, as talks about the possibility of boycotting the Beijing Olympics continued. One in three searchers for 'tibet' visited Wikipedia, followed by Google News and a Free Tibet... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 02:52 PM
In Category News and Media | Politics

Patrick Swayze illness raises awareness of pancreatic cancer

March 12, 2008

As news broke that Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, UK Internet searches for the illness increased 10-fold from the week before to reach the highest ever peak during the week ending 8 March. Awareness... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 11:19 AM
In Category Health

Mark Ronson's website hits highest ever peak yesterday

February 21, 2008

According to Hitwise UK, Internet visits to Mark Ronson's website hit its highest ever peak yesterday to reach #17 within the Music - Bands & Artists category, as the producer won the Best British Male award at the Brits last... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 10:30 AM
In Category Music

The Golden Compass highest ranking movie site

December 05, 2007

Recent research from Hitwise UK shows the website for the movie The Golden Compass is the 15th most visited site in the movies category, week ending 1st December, and is currently the highest ranking movie website. Interest in the author... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 10:22 AM
In Category Entertainment

James Caan most popular Dragon

November 01, 2007

Hitwise UK reveals searches for "dragons den" are at their highest since October 2006 as the BBC show enters it's fifth season. The most popular searched-for dragon over the four weeks ending 27th Oct is James Caan, followed by Peter... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 11:53 AM
In Category Entertainment

Searches for Jose Mourinho increase 60-fold

September 25, 2007

According to Hitwise UK, UK Internet searches for "Jose Mourinho" increased 60-fold the week ending 22nd September and the Chelsea FC website was the 4th most visited premiership team website after the announcement of Mourinho's exit from Chelsea. People were... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 12:03 PM
In Category Sports

Visits to DEFRA website triple as foot & mouth outbreak hits UK

August 08, 2007

According to Hitwise UK Internet visits to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs website tripled for the week ending 4th August as the UK heard the news of a new foot & mouth outbreak. The Top 5 websites... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 11:20 AM
In Category News and Media

Youtube top site receiving traffic from searches for "umbrella"

July 18, 2007

According to Hitwise UK the top website receiving Internet visits from the search term "umbrella" for the four weeks ending 14th July is Youtube with fans of the British pop star Rihanna visiting the video sharing website to view the... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 03:45 PM
In Category Entertainment

Time.com top recipient of searches for Princess Diana

July 13, 2007

Recent research from Hitwise UK shows that 1 in 5 searches during the four weeks ending 7th July for "princess diana" visited the online arm of Time Magazine who set up a special tribute to the Princess in 1998 on... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 02:35 PM
In Category News and Media

Lewis Hamilton searches increase 6-fold online as he claims second F1 win

June 20, 2007

According to Hitwise UK, searches for F1 driver Lewis Hamilton have increased 6-fold in the week ending 16th June as he won his second successive race for McLaren. The top website receiving searches from Hamilton is Wikipedia followed by www.lewishamilton.com.... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 09:00 AM
In Category Sports

Search results from Hitwise To Go - US

Searches for Lent Send Traffic to Ken Collins

February 25, 2009

According to Hitwise US, the top three websites visited after searches for ‘lent’ were Ken Collins' Web Site, Wikipedia and The Christian Resource Institute for the four weeks ending 02/21/09. Today is Ash Wednesday. Now you know.... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 12:10 PM
In Category Lifestyle | Search Trends

Recipes, Crafts and Coloring Pages Top Thanksgiving Searches

November 21, 2008

According to Hitwise US, the top five searches including the search term ‘thanksgiving’ were recipes, crafts, coloring pages, crafts for kids and wallpaper for the four weeks ending 11/15/08. The top three websites receiving traffic from the search term ‘thanksgiving’... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 09:18 AM
In Category Search Trends

Wikipedia Gaining Traffic from Recession

November 06, 2008

According to Hitwise US, the top websites receiving traffic from the search term ‘recession’ were Wikipedia, HowStuffWorks and About Economics for the four weeks ending 11/01/08. Now you know.... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 02:49 PM
In Category Business and Finance | Education | Search Trends

Dancer Tops Fast Moving Searches

June 26, 2008

According to Hitwise US, ‘cyd charisse’ was the fastest moving search term sending traffic to Wikipedia and The New York Times for the week ending 06/21/08. Legendary dancer Cyd Charisse passed away last week. Now you know.... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 11:50 AM
In Category Entertainment | Search Trends

Hot Princess Tops Wikipedia Searches

June 12, 2008

According to Hitwise US, the fastest moving search term that drove traffic to Wikipedia was 'princess tsuguko' for the week ending 06/07/08 versus the previous week. Forbes recently released their "Top 20 Hottest Young Royals," in which Princess Tsuguko of... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 02:59 PM
In Category Education | Search Trends

Searches For iPhone Up 583 Percent

June 27, 2007

According to Hitwise US, US searches for the term iPhone have increased 583 percent for the past four weeks (from the week ending May 26, 2007 to the week ending June 23) leading up to the June 29 launch date.... Continue reading.

Posted by HitwiseToGo at 12:41 PM
In Category Technology

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