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What are we scared of?
February 23, 2009
In his book Click (which has just been published in the UK), one of the topics that Bill Tancer discusses is using search data to get an understanding of what people really think about a topic – as opposed to... Continue reading...
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In Categories Click | Search | TV
The Sun and the Baby Father
February 19, 2009
According to Journalism.co.uk, the Sun’s February 13th story about the 13 year old ‘baby father’ Alfie Patten became the newspaper’s most popular online article of all time. As the chart below illustrates, the Sun’s market share of UK Internet visits... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 09:30 AM
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In Categories News and Media | Search | Social networks
“Money Saving Expert” Martin Lewis the most searched-for personality in the UK
February 18, 2009
Martin Lewis, creator of the “consumer revenge” website Money Saving Expert was the most searched-for personality by UK Internet users during the 12 weeks ending January 3 2009. There were 11% more searches for Martin Lewis than US President Barack... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 07:40 AM
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In Categories Celebrities | Economy | Financial Services | Government | Movies | Music | News and Media | Politics | Search | Social networks | TV
The Telegraph: how to pick up traffic from Digg
February 12, 2009
The Telegraph recently ran an excellent story that included our recent Twitter data. While reading the article I noticed the Digg widget illustrated in the picture below on the newspaper’s homepage. Launched last October it lists the most ‘dugg’ Telegraph... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 10:00 AM
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In Categories BBC | News and Media | Social networks
Twitter enters top 100 sites; UK traffic has trebled already in 2009
February 10, 2009
Last week (w/e 07/02/09) Twitter became one of the 100 most visited websites in the UK for the first time. It ranked 91st within All Categories, placing above online heavyweights such as Expedia UK (96), Gumtree (100), easyJet (101), Digital... Continue reading...
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In Categories Blogs | Social networks | Twitter
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...
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Snow and football transfers
February 03, 2009
Yesterday was the busiest ever day for weather websites in the UK. As the chart below illustrates, websites in our Weather category picked up 1.6% of all UK Internet visits, equivalent to 1 in every 63. And once people discovered... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 03:30 PM
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In Categories Football | Sport | Travel | Weather
Searches for e-books double
February 02, 2009
Over the last year UK interest in e-books has grown significantly, with searches for ‘ebooks’ doubling between January 2008 and 2009. There are four main e-book readers currently available: the Amazon Kindle, the Sony Reader, the Borders iLiad, and the... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 10:15 AM
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In Categories Books | Demographics | Gadgets | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
