Tweet According to an article in the BBC, Cancer Research UK is asking its specialists to write new content for Wikipedia in order to increase the accuracy and clarity of the entries supplied on the online encyclopaedia. Wikipedia is the 12th most popular website in the UK and accounts for just under 1% of all [...]

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Tweet Looking back at 2010 there were a number of games which left a profound mark on the industry. According to my esteemed colleague and resident Hitwise games guru James Murray: “Blizzard’s superb RTS sequel StarCraft 2, renegade space RPG Mass Effect 2 and legendary FPS Call of Duty: Black Ops all raised the bar [...]

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Tweet As the current financial year comes to a close and FY12 begins on 6 April, consumers are searching for ISAs in order to make the most of their tax free savings. Searches for ISAs have increased by 185% in the last four weeks, although they have some way to go in order to match [...]

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Tweet As the Government took stock of the national financial health in last week’s Budget, it was interesting to see how people reacted to the first ever UK Census that was available to complete online. The official date for completing the 2011 Census was yesterday on 27 March 2011. Perhaps unsurprisingly this also corresponded with [...]

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Tweet In the last week the Internet has been buzzing with talk of Rebecca Black. Like her or hate her, Rebecca Black’s pop song Friday is a YouTube sensation which is quickly heading towards 100 million views and has become one of the most talked about topics within the blogosphere. Between the week ending 12 [...]

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Tweet Tomorrow Chancellor George Osborne will deliver his first March Budget to outline the government’s spending plans for the next financial year. A lot of the focus of the Budget is likely to be around fuel duty and interest rates, but Prime Minister David Cameron has also promised that the Budget will: “tear down the [...]

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Tweet Ticketing is one of the most dynamic categories we monitor online as every week there are always new trends of search terms as the UK Internet population seek information about upcoming gigs, festivals, musicals and comedy acts. I’ve written previous blogs on how the Ticketing category acts as an excellent barometer of the hottest [...]

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Tweet It’s red nose time and once again the UK turns its thoughts to sponsored runs, baking extravaganzas and taking baths in baked beans – all in the name of raising money for charity. As you might expect, searches for all terms relating to Comic Relief and Red Nose Day have all increased significantly in [...]

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Tweet The devastating events unfolding in Japan in the wake of the biggest earthquake recorded in the country’s history has been dominating news headlines since the earthquake struck Sendai on Friday 11 March. Unsurprisingly, UK Internet users have been searching for news online about the quake and the following tsunami, causing an unprecedented volume of [...]

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Tweet Social networks continue to grow in dominance and for the first time ever, social media has become the single biggest activity online in the UK, overtaking the Entertainment category. During January 2011 social networks accounted for 12.4% of all UK Internet visits. Across the 9,000 social networks that we monitor, there were over 2.4 [...]

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