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Category Archives: Education
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...
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In Categories Education | Employment | Football | Government | Local | News and Media | Property | Search | Sport
Revision searches and BBC Bitesize
June 10, 2009
One of the fastest moving websites last week was BBC Schools, which experienced a 40% increase in traffic to become the 106th most visited website in the UK. However, as the chart below illustrates, last week’s spike wasn’t the first... Continue reading...
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In Categories BBC | Education | Search
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...
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In Categories BBC | Blogs | Branding | Celebrities | Demographics | Education | Email | Experian | Fashion | Google | Mosaic lifestyle | News and Media | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | TV | Top UK websites
Apprenticeships and The Apprentice
March 13, 2009
UK Internet visits to the homepage of The Apprentice, the BBC TV show starring Sir Alan Sugar, have shot up over the last week. Some of this traffic is a result of anticipation for the forthcoming fifth series, but most... Continue reading...
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In Categories BBC | Celebrities | Charities | Demographics | Education | Employment | Experian | Government | Mosaic lifestyle | Search | TV
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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Large Hadron Collider fever online!
September 10, 2008
I’m writing this at 10:30am, so it seems like Earth probably hasn’t been sucked into a black hole (at least not yet). The ‘big bang’ experiment, which aims to recreate in miniature the creation of the Universe, has successfully started... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 11:30 AM
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In Categories Demographics | Education | Mosaic lifestyle | Science
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...
Posted by Robin Goad at 12:20 PM
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In Categories BBC | Education | Fast moving search terms | Movies | Search | Social networks | Sport | TV | Weather
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...
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In Categories BBC | Education | Fast moving search terms | Government | Music | Olympics | Retail | Search | Sport | Video
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 Categories Education | Social networks | Video
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 Categories Education | Google | 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...
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In Categories Education | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
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...
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