Tweet The question of baby names and baby kit has become surprisingly relevant to me in recent months. In this, my last post before my maternity leave, I wanted to share some data and insights on baby related searches. After “bmi baby” the top UK search term to include the word “baby” in the past [...]

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Tweet I mentioned last week that we are working on some analysis for a report on how consumer search behaviour has changed over the past couple of years. Given the interest in the YouTube-Funny Videos post, I thought I’d share another example. We found a strong negative correlation between the weekly share of UK Internet [...]

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Tweet According to Stephen McGill, head of gambling and entertainment for Xbox UK, the “Xbox 360 is uniquely placed to take the UK by storm this Christmas”. After yesterday’s announcement of a price cut for the gaming console, we thought it high time to update our statistics on searches for gaming consoles. Last week, the [...]

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Tweet We are working on some analysis for a report on how consumer search behaviour has changed over the past couple of years and I wanted to share a fun bit of data that we found. Analysis of search term content, or the words that consumers use when they do internet searches, has seen some [...]

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Tweet Friday the markets went crazy. Now that things are calming down (at least they seem to be) I wanted to look at what impact the turmoil had on UK consumer behaviour online. Friday (10th August) was the busiest day since Budget Day (21st March) for Business Information and Stocks and Shares websites. UK Internet [...]

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Tweet Last week, Bill Tancer (GM of Research for Hitwise US) wrote a brilliant column for Time.com about US search queries that include the words “how to”. While Americans are fiddling with their neckties, Brits are brushing up their CVs, firming and toning and as with the US, teenagers (educated guess) are looking for advice [...]

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Tweet Amazon.co.uk is the second most visited retail website after eBay UK based on UK internet visits and ranks #15 overall, just behind BBC.co.uk and ahead of YouTube. We’re all familiar with the retail giant, but from where does Amazon get its traffic? I wanted to share and elaborate on the stats from our recent [...]

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Tweet The day the Next summer sale began, Next.co.uk climbed to rank 3rd among retail websites, behind eBay UK and Amazon UK and ahead of retail giants Tesco and Argos. We issued a news release on this earlier this week and I wanted to share some of the stats here as the response to the [...]

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Tweet Last week, I took inspiration from LeeAnn’s (our analyst in San Francisco) post about Linked In for our weekly Site Seeing Column in The Guardian (sorry, still not available online). As LeeAnn found in the US, the recent spate of LinkedIn invitations we’ve all been receiving in our inboxes have pushed the share of [...]

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Tweet Last week a colleague pointed out that the share of UK internet searches for “facebook” were tied with those for “myspace”. This week, Facebook continued to climb and so overtook MySpace. This means that the volume of UK searches for “facebook” were higher last week than for MySpace. Facebook continues to trail MySpace in [...]

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