September 30, 2008

Dancing with the Stars Tops Fast Moving Searches

According to Hitwise US, the fastest moving search term among all categories was ‘dancing with the stars’ for the week ending 09/27/08 versus the previous week. The show had a three-episode premiere last week. Now you know.

Posted by togo-us at 02:40 PM
Posted to Search Trends | Television

September 22, 2008

Ryder Cup Website Traffic Increases 1000%

According to Hitwise US, traffic to the Ryder Cup website increased 1000% for the week ending 09/20/08 versus the previous week. Team USA reclaimed the 2008 Ryder Cup this past weekend. Now you know.

Posted by togo-us at 04:05 PM
Posted to Sports

September 19, 2008

Viator Website Traffic Increases 471%

According to Hitwise US, traffic to Viator.com, a website that offers tours and activities in destinations around the world, increased 471% for the week ending 09/13/08 versus the previous week. The top cities searched for on the website were Washington DC, London and New York City. Now you know.

Posted by togo-us at 11:27 AM
Posted to Travel

September 12, 2008

Palin helps WigSalon.com Website Traffic Increase

According to Hitwise US, traffic to the WigSalon.com website increased 100% for the day ending 09/10/08 versus the previous day. The site moved up 58,021 spots in daily visits rank for the same time period. Sarah Palin’s style has caused a buying frenzy since McCain chose her as his running mate for the 2008 presidential elections. Now you know.

Posted by togo-us at 10:12 AM

September 02, 2008

Palin Tops All Searches

According to Hitwise US, Sarah Palin was the top fastest moving search term among all categories for the week ending 08/30/08 versus the previous week. Searches for Palin increased 1313% for that time period. Now you know.

Posted by togo-us at 05:03 PM
Posted to Politics | Search Trends

August 21, 2008

Bigfoot Hoax Ranks 20th Among All Search Terms

According to Hitwise US, the search term ‘bigfoot’ ranked #20 among all US search terms sending visits to all websites last week making it the fastest moving search term among all categories. The supposed discovery of a Bigfoot carcass has been revealed as a hoax - in fact, it was a rubber gorilla suit in a freezer. The top recipient of traffic from searches for 'bigfoot' last week was Google News followed by Yahoo! News. Now you know.

Posted by togo-us at 03:10 PM
Posted to Search Trends

August 12, 2008

Bernie Mac Tops Fast Moving Searches

According to Hitwise US, comedian Bernie Mac topped fast moving searches among all categories for the week ending 08/09/08 versus the previous week. The comedian, voiced as the Original King of Comedy, recently passed away. Now you know.

Posted by togo-us at 10:34 AM
Posted to Entertainment | Search Trends

August 11, 2008

NBC Olympics Website Jumps in Rank

According to Hitwise US, the NBC Olympics website entered the top 100 websites among all categories at #68 in rank on 08/08/08, the date the Olympics began. On 08/09/08 it jumped up to #34 in rank. Now you know.

Posted by togo-us at 02:09 PM
Posted to Entertainment | Sports | Television