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Digg Acquisition Rumors Take 3
July 23, 2008
Rumors are once again circulating that Digg is going to be acquired, with Google once again named as the potential buyer. A few weeks ago I provided some updated statistics on Digg's clickstream, showing that the site now sends almost... Continue reading...
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Posted by Heather Hopkins at 07:05 AM
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MSN Property Breakdown and Growth Areas
July 16, 2008
Last week I promised to post a property breakdown for MSN, similar to the data I posted for Yahoo! and Google. The following table lists the top 20 MSN and Live properties based on share of US Internet visits in... Continue reading...
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Posted by Heather Hopkins at 09:18 AM
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Digg Traffic to Print Media
July 15, 2008
Apparently since Digg has been making efforts to extend from tech to other types of news, there have been more stories from mainstream media and fewer from blogs on the homepage. In March, I did a post showing that Digg... Continue reading...
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Posted by Heather Hopkins at 10:03 AM
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Google Properties Breakdown
July 09, 2008
In response to comments in my post last week on Yahoo!'s property breakdown, I promised to share similar data for Google and MSN. Today I will pick on Google (earlier today I posted predictions for Google's next move post-Lively). This... Continue reading...
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Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:57 AM
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Google Lively - Google Music or Google Autos Next?
July 09, 2008
Google yesterday launched Lively, a browser based virtual world. Back in January we did a post predicting Google's next move using Hitwise clickstream data. At that time, we predicted Google Health and a Google metaverse or virtual world. Google Health... Continue reading...
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Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:00 AM
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Yahoo! Property Breakdown and Sum of the Parts
July 03, 2008
Rumors are circulating about another attempt by Microsoft to acquire part of Yahoo!. The latest rumors suggest that Microsoft will try to buy Yahoo! Search with a media company (i.e. Time Warner or News Corp) absorbing the rest of the... Continue reading...
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Stock Checking Up Along with Financial Uncertainty
July 02, 2008
I was checking some of our category level statistics today as I thought we might see some interesting patterns in categories that are growing in the current financial climate. I noticed our Business & Finance category has experienced strong growth... Continue reading...
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Posted by Heather Hopkins at 10:46 AM
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