Hitwise Intelligence - Analyst Weblogs

September 05, 2008

Is Chrome the New Colour of the Web?

There's plenty of activity around the blogosphere, in the newspapers and in the office with people loading the new Google Chrome browser, making their own comparisons, and adding their opinions. Two days after its release on September 3 the initial...
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Posted by Alan Long at 08:41 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Google | Search

Measuring Trust and Social Networks - Where do we put our trust online?

I read with interest this week a post by Charlene Li on identity fraud on social networks, which got me thinking again about the huge amount of trust we put into social networks with our repositories of personal data. While...
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Posted by Sandra Hanchard at 05:22 PM | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Social Networking | Trust

Top bands / artists: Katy Perry and Kate Nash

Here the top band / artist searches sending traffic to social networks and music blogs during August. Starting with the social networks, Katy Perry, who topped the British and American charts over the summer with her hit “I Kissed a...
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September 04, 2008

Google Chrome Stats

On Tuesday the news of the launch of Google’s browser Chrome flooded the major news outlets, both online & off, adding a new competitor to the browser wars between Firefox & IE. In one day, Google Chrome reached the #12...
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Posted by Heather Dougherty at 11:47 AM | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Search Engines

September 03, 2008

Google Chrome – initial stats

We’ve had a number of requests for Google Chrome stats, so here they are… Yesterday (September 2nd) the homepage of the Google’s new browser was the 130th most visited in the UK, accounting for 0.06% of all UK Internet visits....
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Posted by Robin Goad at 12:00 PM | Comments (10) | TrackBack (1)
Posted to Google | Search

The Last Olympic Post - Part Two

Yesterday we reviewed the comparative interest in the Olympics, the specific events that captured the attention and the relative site performance in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong. Today, using our Search Intelligence product we are looking at how...
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Palin - Most Searched for Political Figure

From our ABCNews Blog: John McCain's decision to add Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket has resulted in unprecedented media coverage for the first female Republican VP nominee, but just how interested is the American public in the governor from...
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Posted by Bill Tancer at 10:20 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

McCain Catching Obama in News and Media Traffic But Deep Divide Persists

The media is accused of a liberal bias and of being all too kind in coverage of Barack Obama. What can clickstream data tell us about this bias and the red-blue divide in America? First let's look at how much...
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Posted by Heather Hopkins at 09:04 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to News and Media