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Category Archives: Games
Video Games searches overtake Mobile Phones following release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
November 20, 2009
UK Internet searches for video games increased by 28% last week following the release of the much hyped and anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. As the chart below illustrates, Video Games overtook Mobile Phones to become the most... Continue reading...
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In Categories Fast moving search terms | Gadgets | Games | Paid search | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Microsoft Xbox 360 takes console top spot despite Sony PS3 Slim surge
October 02, 2009
Over the last couple of Christmases, Nintendo (both the Wii and DS) consoles have ruled the roost, but it looks as if this Christmas things will be quite different. The chart below illustrates searches for our portfolios of console-specific search... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 11:00 AM
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In Categories Christmas | Gadgets | Games | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Sims 3, top transactional websites and the latest Experian Insight Report.
June 04, 2009
Not a full blog entry for once, but a list of links to some other great content from elsewhere within Hitwise and Experian. Firstly, a great new blog from Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst Richard Seymour on the rollercoaster ride of... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 05:40 PM
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In Categories Economy | Experian | Gadgets | Games | Search
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
Vouchers vs. sales: battle of the online discounts
January 13, 2009
Around this time last year we reported that post-Christmas sales searches had trebled; a couple of weeks ago we noted that this year the increase was just 3.2%. However, if Christmas 2007 was the year that online sales went mainstream,... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 04:30 PM
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In Categories Charities | Economy | Fashion | Gadgets | Games | Movies | Music | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Nintendo Wii and DS account for two-thirds of console searches
December 18, 2008
Nintendo’s Wii Console, which accounted for more than one in three games console searches in November, overtook Nintendo’s Wii Fit to become the UK’s most searched-for product in November. The company’s DS Lite was also the fastest growing console online,... Continue reading...
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In Categories Christmas | Gadgets | Games | Retail | Search | Social networks | Toys
Video game trade in and rentals on the increase
November 28, 2008
As I mentioned on my post a couple of weeks ago, Richard Seymour, Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst will be posting further analysis on consumer electronics in the run up to Christmas. Here Richard discusses an interesting aspect in the video... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 04:45 PM
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In Categories Games
Wii Music to be the next Wii Fit?
November 21, 2008
Wii Music, the recently launched music making game for the Nintendo Wii, has already raced into a battle with our list of top 10 games from October. This is extremely impressive as the game was only released in the UK... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 06:38 PM
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In Categories Gadgets | Games
Nintendo Wii Fit most searched for product this Christmas
November 13, 2008
Wii Fit, Nintendo’s popular video game, is currently the most searched-for product by UK Internet shoppers in the run-up to Christmas. During October there were more UK Internet searches for Wii Fit than the Nintendo Wii, the most popular product... Continue reading...
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In Categories Christmas | Gadgets | Games | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Fast moving search terms: Batman, Now Compilations, Festivals, Runescape
July 28, 2008
The 10 fastest moving search terms in the UK last week were: 1. now 70 2. christian bale 3. global gathering 4. heath ledger 5. batman 6. dark knight 7. womad 8. shipwrecked 9. runehq 10. hamfatter Four of these... Continue reading...
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In Categories Fast moving search terms | Games | Movies | Music | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | TV
Game cheats: GTA4, Mario Kart Wii and Halo 3
May 20, 2008
Following the recent launches of two popular video games, Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA4) and Nintendo's Mario Kart Wii, we noticed an interesting search pattern. As you can see from the chart below, searches for the game itself peak during... Continue reading...
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In Categories Gadgets | Games | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
