May 10, 2008

Housemate Tops Searches

According to Hitwise Australia, ‘rima hadchiti’ was the fastest moving search term in the News and Media industry for the week ending 03/05/2008 compared to the previous week. The controversial 25 year old belly dancer from Melbourne is the smallest ever Big Brother housemate at just one metre tall. Now you know

Posted by togo-ap at 09:09 PM
Posted to News and Media

May 09, 2008

Social Networks the new email

Social Networking is continuing to gain traction amongst Singapore Internet users, with the Social Networks and Forums industry increasing its market share of visits by 13.07% year-on-year, at April 2008. Conversely, during the same period traffic to Email Services declined by 30.72%, suggesting the possibility that Internet users are increasingly turning to social networks for online communication. Now you know.

Posted by togo-ap at 03:58 PM
Posted to Social Networking

May 08, 2008

Spoil Mum this Mother’s Day

In preparation to spoil mum on Mother’s Day (Sunday 11th May), New Zealanders are heading online to do their research. While searches for ‘mothers day gifts’ and ‘mothers day poems’ suggest an eagerness to find just the right gift, it seems that New Zealanders aren’t so sure when these gifts should be given, with ‘mothers day date’, ‘when is mothers day’ and ‘mothers day date 2008’ making up 3 of the top 10 ‘mothers day’ related searches. Shopping and Classifieds was the industry most likely to recieve traffic from 'mothers day' searches (12 weeks ending 03/05/2008). Now you know.

Posted by togo-ap at 11:10 AM
Posted to Shopping & Classifieds

April 30, 2008

Take Your Bets

According to Hitwise Australia for the week ending 26/04/2008, 75.3% of online traffic to the Gambling industry goes to local websites, where Australians spend an average time of 17 minutes and 21 seconds. TAB Racing ( www.tabracing.com.au) was the most popular Gambling website, receiving a 12.40% market share of visits to the industry. Now you know.

Posted by togo-ap at 10:13 AM
Posted to Gambling

Lemon or Cabbage?

When it comes to health and weight loss, New Zealanders are searching online for ‘diet’ information. The most popular ‘diet’ searched for during the 24 weeks ending 26/04/2008 was ‘lemon detox diet’, followed by ‘atkins diet’, ‘detox diet’, ‘cabbage soup diet’, ‘blood type diet’ and ‘south beach diet’. The most successful website to receive traffic from 'diet' was Diet.com (www.diet.com) representing 36.71% of all traffic. Now you know.

Posted by togo-ap at 10:10 AM
Posted to Lifestyle

Big Brother Back Again

With the 2008 television series of Big Brother commencing on 28/4/2008, searches in the Television – Programmes industry for ‘big brother’ increased by 575% during the 2 weeks ending 26/04/2008. Similarly, during the same period, the market share of visits to Big Brother Australia (www.bigbrother.com.au) increased by 673%, propelling the website to the No.1 ranking in the Television – Programmes industry. Now you know.

Posted by togo-ap at 09:52 AM
Posted to Television

April 23, 2008

Where is Singapore?

During the 24 week period ending 19/04/2008, among the most popular destinations searched for by Singapore Internet users containing the term ‘where is’ were ‘where is glasgow’, ‘where is bangkok’, ‘where is egypt’ and ‘where is belize’. Now you know.

Posted by togo-ap at 03:34 PM
Posted to Travel

Anzac Day Celebrations

In the lead up to Anzac Day on April 25th, during the 12 weeks ending 19/04/2008, some of the popular search terms including ‘anzac’ searched for by New Zealanders were ‘anzac day 2008’, ‘anzac biscuits’, ‘anzac poppy’, ‘anzac weekend’ and ‘anzac poems’. Comparatively, the most popular ‘anzac’ search terms searched for by Australians were ‘anzac biscuits’, ‘anzac songs’, ‘anzac legend’ and ‘anzac day activites’. Now you know.

Posted by togo-ap at 03:32 PM
Posted to Search