It’s no secret that every ratings service has different numbers for search engine market shares, site visits, and just about any other metric out there. What to do?
We ask Danny Sullivan. (I mean, DUH. Who else would you ask?) Danny has a set of graphs showing the trends over the last year from comScore, Hitwise, Nielsen and Compete. So what are the conclusions? While there’s a relatively huge spread on the percentage, the over
Not only does MySpace win in the London Business School’s War Games, but they win in the real world. At least according to Hitwise’s latest data on branded search terms.
Hitwise reports (via MediaPost) that the top 10 searched-for branded keywords from 2006 were (spelling from Hitwise): myspace
ebay
yahoo
mapquest
craigslist
walmart
google
target
match.com
bank of america What does this tell us? (Aside from the fact that people ar
Want to know the best way to push any website to the #1 popularity spot for its industry? It’s quite simple, you leverage the traffic from one of Google’s existing properties.
Need proof?
Google’s Blog Search has taken over the #1 spot from Technorati, thanks to a link placed on the homepage of Google News
Google has deep pockets, and is certainly not afraid to use its war-chest of cash to take on PayPal. Hitwise reports Google Checkout’s $10 off $30 promotion (and the just announced $20 off $50) is helping the company to buy its way into the online payment processing market.
Its market share of visits was up 30% in the past four weeks (week ending 11/18/06 vs
