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Online fashion retail still growing despite high street slowdown
June 26, 2008
The CBI has issued a report claiming that clothing retailers have just experienced their worst month for quarter of a century. I can only assume that this fall in sales must be down to an underperforming high street, because the... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 01:00 PM
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In Categories Economy | Fashion | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks
Redundancy searches: employee and employer behaviour
June 26, 2008
Recently we’ve looked at how internet behaviour has adapted a number of ways to meet the challenges of an economic downturn, including consumer spending, inflation and house prices. However, until now we haven’t touched on the most worrying aspect: unemployment.... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 07:00 AM
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In Categories Demographics | Economy | Employment | Government | Search
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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Posted by Robin Goad at 10:30 AM
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In Categories News and Media | Search | TV
Festivals and band searches
June 23, 2008
Glastonbury - festival of mud and music – officially starts on Friday, and the fastest moving search term sending traffic to our Music category last week was ‘glastonbury line up 2008’. It’s likely that some of these searches relate to... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 04:00 PM
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In Categories Music | Search
22% increase in paid brand search rates following Google’s trademark changes
June 19, 2008
The top online brands in the UK have significantly increased their rate of paid brand search following the recent changes to Google’s trademark policy on May 5th. Before Google’s changes took effect (4 weeks ending 12/04/2008), 9.2% of the search... Continue reading...
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In Categories Financial Services | Google | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Toys
Sainsbury’s website downtime analysis
June 19, 2008
Yesterday the BBC reported that Sainsbury’s had suspended its online grocery store, and looking at the site this morning that still seems to be the case. One of the great things about Hitwise’s daily data is that we are able... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 11:00 AM
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In Categories Food | News and Media | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds
Blackberry benefits from iPhone hype
June 18, 2008
A lot of the iPhone launch coverage last week included references to the alternatives to Apple’s latest mobile phone. It looks like the competitor that benefited most from these comparisons in Britain was Blackberry – ironic, considering that many are... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 02:00 PM
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In Categories Gadgets | Mobile phones | Search
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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Posted by Robin Goad at 12:00 PM
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In Categories Education | Google | Search
Mortgage calculators up, 100% mortgages down
June 16, 2008
When Abbey last month became the last big bank to abandon 100 per cent mortgages, it did so in the face of the credit crunch and falling demand from buyers. As the graph below shows, the volume of UK internet... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 03:00 PM
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In Categories Economy | Financial Services | Government | News and Media | Search
The Apprentice and BBC iPlayer
June 12, 2008
That’s what I’m talking about! Like nine million other Britons, the Hitwise UK office has been slightly obsessed with The Apprentice over the last few months. We were pleased to see peoples’ choice Lee McQueen crowned winner last night, although... Continue reading...
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In Categories Search | TV | Video
Euro 2008 and British Football fans
June 11, 2008
Most of the rest of Europe is in the grip or football fever, but how excited is the UK considering that none of the home nations are taking part? ‘euro 2008’ was the most popular search term sending traffic to... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 02:00 PM
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In Categories Demographics | Football | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | Sport
Blog traffic reaches all time high
June 10, 2008
UK Internet visits to weblogs reached an all time high last week. As the chart below illustrates, Blogs and Personal Websites accounted for 1.19% of all UK traffic, equivalent to one in every 84 internet visits. Taking the slightly longer... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 12:30 PM
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In Categories Blogs | Gadgets | Google | News and Media | Politics | Search
iPhone website reaches a new high as rumour mill goes into overdrive
June 09, 2008
Apple is expected to launch a new version of its iPhone at the Apple World Wide Developers' Conference in San Francisco this afternoon (UK time). As with all such events, the speculation amongst Apple fans and foes has almost reached... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 02:00 PM
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In Categories Blogs | News and Media | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Online vouchers prove popular in bargain-hungry Britain
June 06, 2008
With the economy slowing and prices rising, everyone is on the lookout for a bargain. Vouchers have become a popular way of promoting discounts, particularly around Christmas time. In fact, they have become some popular that price sensitive shoppers are... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 09:00 AM
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In Categories Economy | Fashion | Gadgets | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Postcode searches and SEO
June 03, 2008
One of the more curious and unexpected fast moving search terms that we spotted on Monday was ‘b78 3tw’. As you can probably guess, this is a postcode. Specifically, it is the postcode of Drayton Manor Park, a popular theme... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 11:00 AM
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In Categories Google | Property | Search | Travel
UK house prices: searches and sales
June 02, 2008
Heather Hopkins recently identified a correlation between house searches and house sales in the US. She compared searches for the term "homes for sale" with actual sales data from the American National Association of Realtors, and found that there was... Continue reading...
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In Categories Economy | Financial Services | News and Media | Property | Search
