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Category Archives: Football
Liverpool beach ball searches
October 19, 2009
As you might expect, following Darren Bent’s freak beach ball goal for Sunderland against Liverpool on Saturday, UK beach ball-related internet searches shot up. As the chart below illustrates, the breadth of searches for the term ‘beach ball’ (which measures... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 11:50 AM
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In Categories Fast moving search terms | Football | Search | Sport
Ukraine vs. England: a success for online video and Bet365
October 12, 2009
By most accounts, the screening of the Ukraine vs. England football match online was a success. The live video stream picked up an estimated audience of half a million and there were few technical complaints. The website that screened the... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 11:00 AM
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In Categories Football | Gambling | Search | Sport | TV | Video
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...
Posted by Robin Goad at 11:40 AM
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In Categories Education | Employment | Football | Government | Local | News and Media | Property | Search | Sport
BBC F1 and the new England Kit
March 30, 2009
The Formula 1 season kicked off this weekend, with Jenson Button pulling off a surprise victory for the new Brawn team. This year the UK television coverage has returned to the BBC after more than a decade with ITV. In... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 12:10 PM
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In Categories Automotive | BBC | Fashion | Football | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Sport | TV
Celeb and entertainment searches dominate Google News
March 26, 2009
Last week we revealed that Twitter had overtaken Google News in the UK. However, although everyone’s favourite micro-blogging service receives more UK Internet visits, Google News remains the greater source of traffic for News and Media websites. As the chart... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:00 AM
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In Categories Celebrities | Football | Gadgets | Google | Movies | Music | News and Media | Politics | Search | Sport | TV | Twitter | Weather
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...
Posted by Robin Goad at 02:18 PM
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In Categories Football | Games | Google | Guest posts | News and Media | Search | Social networks | Sport | TV | Travel
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...
Posted by Robin Goad at 03:30 PM
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In Categories Football | Sport | Travel | Weather
Fast moving search terms: Google Chrome, cautious investors, football and flooding
September 08, 2008
The 10 fastest moving search terms in the UK last week were: 1. google chrome 2. man city 3. bestival 4. environment agency 5. chrome 6. manchester city 7. burghley horse trials 8. nsandi 9. ns&i 10. setanta sports The... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 01:00 PM
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In Categories Demographics | Economy | Environment | Fast moving search terms | Financial Services | Football | Google | Government | Sport | TV | Weather
Fast moving search terms: Olympics, BBC iPlayer, UCAS and fantasy football
August 18, 2008
The 10 fastest moving search terms in the UK last week were: 1. ucas track 2. bbc olympics 3. fantasy premier league 4. dream team 5. michael phelps 6. tom daley 7. the sun dream team 8. joules 9. last... Continue reading...
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In Categories BBC | Demographics | Fashion | Fast moving search terms | Football | Olympics | Retail | Sport | TV | Video
Football: transfers and fantasy
August 12, 2008
Never mind the Olympics, football websites remain the post popular sport sites in the UK, currently accounting for a third of visits to our Sports category. As you can see from the chart below, by last week traffic had already... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 04:00 PM
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In Categories Football | News and Media | Search | Sport
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...
Posted by Robin Goad at 02:00 PM
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In Categories Demographics | Football | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | Sport
Chelsea: flowers or football?
May 29, 2008
Flowers were more popular than football in the UK last week, as the Champions League final in Moscow coincided with the annual Chelsea Flower Show in London. Searches for ‘chelsea flower show’ tripled during the week ending 24 May and... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 03:35 PM
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In Categories Football | Search | Sport
Eduardo injury and YouTube
February 26, 2008
The horrific injury sustained by Arsenal’s Brazilian-born Croatian striker Eduardo da Silva has led to an outpouring of sympathy from football fans, and not just supporters of Arsenal or Croatia. Searches for ‘eduardo’ increased almost forty-fold last week, and ‘eduardo... Continue reading...
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In Categories Demographics | Football | News and Media | Search | Social networks | Video
Israel football searches
November 20, 2007
Thanks to Israel’s unexpected victory over Russia on Saturday, the England football team now only need a point against Croatia to qualify for next year’s European Championships. With England fans praying for a favourable result at the weekend, searches for... Continue reading...
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In Categories Football | Sport
