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- Why Facebook hasn’t overtaken Google in the UK (and won’t for the foreseeable future)
- Mother’s Day: Woodlands Junior School strikes again
- Is Fairtrade growing in popularity?
- Coffee wars: Flat White vs. Cappuccino
- The dotcom bubble: 10 years on
- Travel sites show improvement in the latest IMRG-HITWISE HOT SHOPS LIST
- Where in the UK are financial aggregator websites most popular?
- Chatroulette: a posh webcam?
- Top websites in France
- UK Internet Map (as featured on the BBC’s Virtual Revolution)
- Christmas Dinner – Homemade cheesecakes in; roast potatoes out
- Apple Tablet the fourth most searched for laptop in the UK
- UK Internet visits to skiing and snowboarding websites up 18.5% year on year
- The profile of online shoppers becomes more affluent over the Christmas period
- Snow causes traffic to Weather and Transport websites to reach all time high
- Eastenders’ web traffic spikes following E20 launch
- Beautiful People experiences fifty-fold increase in traffic following "fatties" announcement
- Last minute surge in online retail traffic before VAT increase
- Shop opening times searches up 11% this Christmas
- Post-Christmas retail round up: online and offline traffic spikes on Boxing Day
- Google Chrome searches double following advertising campaign
- BBC Radio 1 website has its busiest ever day thanks to RATM vs. X Factor chart battle
- 2009 online: the year in review
- TuneChecker and MP3 music download price comparison websites
- Online Christmas shopping: top towns
- Apple iPhone and iPod Touch the most searched for products this Christmas
- Will Rage Against the Machine beat X Factor winner Joe McElderry to the Christmas number one spot?
- Joe to win X Factor - X Factor predictions update
- Cyber Monday: pre-Christmas online retail peak moves a week closer to Christmas
- Who will win The X Factor 2009?
- Online only retailers fighting back against the high street
- Video Games searches overtake Mobile Phones following release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- X Factor receives four times more UK Internet visits than Strictly Come Dancing
- Property websites experience first increase in UK traffic for over two years
- Google Doodle: Sesame Street vs. Wallace and Gromit
- Windows 7 Release
- UK Halloween and fancy dress costume searches increasing
- Motor and car insurance search behaviour
- Has the threat of postal strikes harmed eCommerce in the UK?
- Liverpool beach ball searches
- Facebook accounts for 1 in every 7 UK page views
- Searches for climate change and energy efficiency (Blog Action Day)
- Micro pig searches benefit the Daily Mail and Telegraph
- Ukraine vs. England: a success for online video and Bet365
- Pre-Christmas sales searches: let the game of Retail Chicken commence!
- How do people search for travel in the UK?
- Microsoft Xbox 360 takes console top spot despite Sony PS3 Slim surge
- 50%+ increases in US and Australian Internet searches for flights to the UK
- The importance of photo searches
- Nescafe reward scheme and advertising campaign
- Record week for Google News
- American visitors to UK news websites
- Capital One and Facebook
- Experian Hitwise
- Twitter overtakes MySpace in the UK
- Microsoft Bing News Search
- Car scrappage scheme online
- Ashes success boosts BBC Sport, Sky Sports and cricket websites
- Voucher searches up 47.5% in a year
- Content driven websites receive 73% more traffic than transactional ones
- Friendfeed, Facebook and Twitter
- Bee keeping and the Beehaus
- Mortgages: Deposits and Fixed Rates
- Pregnancy and baby searches
- BBC iPlayer overtakes Myspace
- The role of paid search and comparison sites in the insurance sector
- Fourth plinth installation popular online
- Searching to stay cool
- Are online discount vouchers on the decline?
- Michael Jackson, Twitter and TMZ
- Twitter sending traffic to online media sites, but not online retailers
- Iran searches and Twitter
- Apple iPhone 3G S vs Nokia N97
- Facebook usernames: record traffic levels
- Local Internet data: Liverpool example
- Revision searches and BBC Bitesize
- Initial Bing stats
- Sims 3, top transactional websites and the latest Experian Insight Report.
- Top 100 student websites in the UK
- ITV.com traffic reaches record high thanks to Britain’s Got Talent
- UK traffic to Polish websites declining
- Increase in traffic to train, bus and coach websites
- Mobile phone recycling searches treble
- Marks and Spencer traffic up 94% following 1p sale
- MPs’ expenses update: Telegraph picks up 1 in every 756 UK page views
- MPs' expenses searches drive Telegraph page views
- London Marathon: 2010 searches overtake 2009
- Swine flu searches increase 58-fold
- Travel industry experiences decline in paid search
- Budget 2009: paid search tactics
- Online retailers receiving less traffic from paid search, but more from social networks
- UK Internet users spending more time on social networks than shopping online
- Interest rates: the relationship between online and offline behaviour
- Shop opening times searches: an SEO opportunity?
- Festival fever and a good week for the NME
- What would a Google-Twitter marriage mean?
- Sales searches drive department store traffic
- Daniel Hannan: has social media finally gone political in the UK?
- BBC F1 and the new England Kit
- Celeb and entertainment searches dominate Google News
- Fair weather searches
- Google Maps visits up 41% following UK Street View launch
- Online video traffic up 41%; BBC iPlayer 22nd most popular UK website
- Mobile phones are the most searched for consumer electronics product; Apple the top brand
- Twitter and UK newspaper websites
- Apprenticeships and The Apprentice
- TV and Games are UK's most searched for subjects
- Facebook the most searched for brand in the UK
- Top 10 websites of 2008
- Guest post – ‘Click’ review by David Soskin
- What are we scared of?
- The Sun and the Baby Father
- “Money Saving Expert” Martin Lewis the most searched-for personality in the UK
- The Telegraph: how to pick up traffic from Digg
- Twitter enters top 100 sites; UK traffic has trebled already in 2009
- Wikipedia and its imitators
- Snow and football transfers
- Searches for e-books double
- Searching for the recession
- Social networks overtake adult websites
- Twitter traffic increases 10-fold in a year
- eMusic and the Long Tail
- Flight search and travel data update
- Vouchers vs. sales: battle of the online discounts
- Searches for flights down 42% on last year
- Shahrukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai most searched for Bollywood stars
- Healthy New Year? Gym traffic up, diet searches down
- TVs, Computers and iPods most popular sales items
- Social Xmas: Facebook’s busiest day ever, YouTube overtakes Hotmail, Social networks = 10% of UK Internet traffic
- UK online retail: Christmas round up
- Traffic to E Cards websites up 11.8%
- Last minute surge in online Christmas shopping
- Simon’s cat, his sister’s dog and the RSPCA
- Nintendo Wii and DS account for two-thirds of console searches
- Apple iPhone pulls away from its closest competitors
- Retro toys dominate as searches for toys double in the run up to Christmas
- Property websites and the online house price crash
- Pre-Christmas peaks in online retail traffic
- High street retailers’ online demographics
- Netbooks account for 1 in every 7 computer searches
- Just another Mega Monday?
- 133% increase in voucher searches
- Video game trade in and rentals on the increase
- Pre-budget report: tax cuts and petrol prices
- Marks & Spencer and Debenhams sales
- Wii Music to be the next Wii Fit?
- John Sergeant and Strictly Come Dancing online
- Apple iPhone the most searched for mobile phone in the UK…just
- Unemployment, redundancy and Christmas jobs
- Eating out: afternoon tea, listing sites and the MoneySavingExpert
- Nintendo Wii Fit most searched for product this Christmas
- Exchange rates, currency sites and the strong Dollar
- Interest rate cut: impact on search behaviour
- Diana Vickers leading the X Factor pack online
- TV and US media websites big election winners in the UK
- James Bond: Quantum of Solace online
- UK Internet searches for the US Election
- Online retail declines as Westfield opens
- X Factor vs. Strictly Come Dancing 2008
- Economic downturn benefits budget travel and cruises
- What comfort food recipes tell us about UK search behaviour
- Kerry Katona and YouTube
- DIY and gardening content online
- Second hand goods, classifieds websites and Freecycle beating the credit crunch
- Yahoo!, Google and MSN: news services compared
- Supermarkets continue to grow online
- Charity websites weather the credit crunch
- Facebook is number 2 website, but the growth of social networks is slowing
- Pasta Hut vs. Pizza Hut
- The cult of Robert Peston and BBC blogs
- Irish banks benefit as UK online banking traffic reaches an all time high
- The role of news aggregators in the UK
- Impact of the T-mobile G1 (google phone) launch
- Top Ski Resorts
- Credit crunch dominates fast moving search terms
- Google Docs benefits from growth in job searches
- Has the credit crunch killed ethical consumerism?
- Fast moving search terms: LHC, big bang, Andy Murray and XL
- DIY and furniture retailers overtake estate agents online
- Large Hadron Collider fever online!
- Paid search rates by industry
- Fast moving search terms: Google Chrome, cautious investors, football and flooding
- Top bands / artists: Katy Perry and Kate Nash
- Google Chrome – initial stats
- Fast moving search terms: Strictly Come Dancing, Pierrepoint, Most Haunted
- Zoom Airlines collapse benefits BA
- Olympics winners: sports sites, bike retailers and sportswear manufacturers
- Olympics – Aussies vs. Poms and most searched for athletes
- Car hire / rental – search habits and top destinations
- Fast moving search terms: Olympics, BBC iPlayer, UCAS and fantasy football
- National Express: using the web to monitor a rebranding campaign
- 9 in 10 UK searches are navigational / branded
- Vouchers, price comparison and cash-back
- Football: transfers and fantasy
- Fast moving search terms: Olympics, celebrities and exams
- Top bands / artists online: August 2008 chart
- High street retailers winning online shopping battle
- Facebook overtakes eBay to become third most visited website
- Fast moving search terms: British Gas fallout, Beatrix Potter and diamond geezers
- The changing profile of online newspaper readership
- Movie & TV sequels: search behaviour and the retail gap
- Fast moving search terms: Batman, Now Compilations, Festivals, Runescape
- Knife crime searches: statistics, prevention and geography
- Superbrands: demographics and lifestyle information
- Top 5 web 2.0 sites account for 1 in every 15 UK Internet visits
- Food websites grow as self-sufficiency gains popularity
- Twitter UK traffic: up 485% this year, 70% higher than USA
- Price comparison traffic up 37% thanks to economic downturn
- Branded borrowing on the increase
- Hottest bands on the social networks and music blogs
- How to save money in a recession
- Apple iPhone, O2 and the purchasing cycle
- Adulthood and Kidulthood: sequels and the halo effect
- Asos.com: growth and demographics
- Summer sales and email marketing
- Online fashion retail still growing despite high street slowdown
- Redundancy searches: employee and employer behaviour
- TV spoilers and Digital Spy
- Festivals and band searches
- 22% increase in paid brand search rates following Google’s trademark changes
- Sainsbury’s website downtime analysis
- Blackberry benefits from iPhone hype
- Google holiday logos and Wikipedia growth
- Mortgage calculators up, 100% mortgages down
- The Apprentice and BBC iPlayer
- Euro 2008 and British Football fans
- Blog traffic reaches all time high
- iPhone website reaches a new high as rumour mill goes into overdrive
- Online vouchers prove popular in bargain-hungry Britain
- Postcode searches and SEO
- UK house prices: searches and sales
- Chelsea: flowers or football?
- Does the BBC dominate online news in the UK?
- Petrol prices searches reach an all time high
- SATC more popular in UK than USA
- Social networking and online shopping bigger in rural areas
- Lolcats and popbitches
- Game cheats: GTA4, Mario Kart Wii and Halo 3
- Freesat proves popular online
- All inclusive holidays popular in a weak economy
- Lawnmowers and BBQs: UK searchers celebrate the sunshine!
- Burma / Myanmar Google charity donations
- Mobile broadband searches increasing
- Coldplay’s website traffic surges thanks to free single download
- London Mayoral elections update
- Google delivers over a third of all UK traffic – trademark changes will have a significant impact
- London Mayoral elections: what does the Internet data say?
- Apple iPhone UK price drop
- How long does it take to recover from a Google ‘blacklisting’? (GoCompare update)
- Google Book Search on the rise
- Top 10 UK search terms: social networks dominate the list
- The Independent gains online market share in the UK
- Google UK trademark changes and navigational search
- UK DIY and Screwfix
- How popular is Google's "pages from the UK" search option?
- Miss Bimbo: who is visiting?
- Online video traffic up 178% in a year
- Facebook traffic back to Christmas peak
- Retail price index and organic food
- Is Facebook on the decline in the UK?
- Plural or Singular search terms?
- Local search in the UK
- Brits more interested in US presidential race than domestic politics
- SEO for Mother’s Day
- Eduardo injury and YouTube
- VideoJug: video search and 'how to' queries
- UK Polish Internet usage on the rise
- Brit Awards, MySpace and the top new bands
- Paid and organic search trends
- What happens if your site gets 'blacklisted' by Google?
- Amy Winehouse: the benefits of good and bad publicity
- Group Recipes: social networking for the hungry
- Ryanair website downtime
- Moonpig.com, Valentine’s poems and romantic breaks
- Yahoo! and Microsoft: UK perspective
- How important were final Christmas order and delivery dates?
- UK Internet traffic to newspaper websites reaches a new high
- LinkedIn demographics: an up-market social network and an up-market job site
- UK job searches and Linkedin
- Football: transfer traffic and the Kevin Keegan effect
- Top Ski destinations
- Scrabulous, Facebook and Scrabble
- Facebook: 1 in 50 UK Internet visits
- Act on C02 campaign an environmental success
- BBC iPlayer traffic increases 14-fold in a month
- Wedding and divorce
- Long-haul travel searches increase
- Sales searches trebled in 2007
- Boxing Day busiest online shopping day in the UK during 2007
- Top UK gift vouchers this Christmas
- Paypal vs. Google Checkout in the UK
- Long tail evolution
- Supermarkets' online share increasing
- The demographics of gadgets
- Lyrics, X-Factor and Christmas number one
- Alesha Dixon to win Strictly Come Dancing?
- Nintendo Wii the most searched for product this Christmas, despite UK shortages
- Christmas market search trends
- Discount retail vouchers
- Digital photo frames more popular than cameras this Christmas
- Child benefit chaos, football failure
- Israel football searches
- High street retailers overtake pure-play retailers online
- X-Factor vs. Strictly Come Dancing
- Facebook poppy appeal
- Silver surfers become silver shoppers
- iPhone UK launch
- Social networks overtake webmail
- Youdoo doll a Dragons' Den success
- Apple iPhone is the most searched for mobile phone in the UK
- Top Halloween Costumes for 2007
- Social networks' retail impact has increased by 153% in the UK since last Christmas
- Lewis Hamilton searches
- Campbell's age did have an impact on the Lib Dems
- Rugby searches overtake football following England's semi-final victory
- Radiohead, Freakonomics and free music
- Control, Manchester and Factory Records
- Rugby succcess boosts sports retail
- Bratz the most popular toys in the run up to Christmas
- Burma charity response
- High School Musical dominates in the year of the downloads
- Hot Christmas gadgets: Nintendo Wii, sat nav and iPods
- Facebook and charity
- O2, Led Zeppelin and the iPhone
- Property search terms
- Cheap vs. Free
- Amy Winehouse and Klaxons receive Mercury Prize boost
- HSBC, Cadbury's and Facebook
- Big Brother searchers prefer blondes
- Delia Smith is top chef: let her cook cake
- Bank holiday search terms
- Last.fm predicts the future of music
- Overseas property searches increase by 24%
- Total recall: Mattel vs. Nokia
- Students flock to ucas.co.uk and social networks following exam results
- Searches for 'fantasy football' up 94% on last year
