Posts Tagged ‘ Environment ’

Volcanic ash cloud: online travel impact

Tweet Last week UK Internet users searched for over 10,000 different searches containing the word ‘volcano’, up from less than 1,000 the previous week. The reason for this surge was the volcanic eruption in Iceland that has caused travel chaos across Northern Europe. As the chart below illustrates, UK Internet visits to Aviation websites (a [...][ READ MORE ]

UK Internet visits to skiing and snowboarding websites up 18.5% year on year

Tweet The recent heavy snow and cold weather may have caused travel chaos in some parts of the UK, but it clearly has also served to remind people of the pleasures of winter sports. For the week ending 9th January 2010, UK Internet visits to Snow Sports websites were up 18.5% on the same week [...][ READ MORE ]

Searches for climate change and energy efficiency (Blog Action Day)

Tweet Today is Blog Action Day and, as with last year, Alan Long has beaten me to it with an excellent post on this year’s topic, climate change. I’m taking a similar approach, looking at climate changes related searches in the UK. In order to do this I revived a couple of search term portfolios [...][ READ MORE ]

Bee keeping and the Beehaus

Tweet Monday mornings are never the most cheerful time of the week, but mine are often brightened up by perusing our list of the previous week’s fast moving search terms. This morning the term that brought a smile to my face was ‘beehaus’, the name of a trendy new beehive aimed at attracting more people [...][ READ MORE ]

Mobile phone recycling searches treble

Tweet Internet searches related to the recycling of mobile phones have almost trebled over the last 12 months. UK Internet searches for a portfolio of mobile phone recycling search terms – such as ‘recycle mobile phones’, ‘mobile phone recycling’ and ‘phone recycling’ – increased by 189% between the week ending 17/05/2008 and the week ending [...][ READ MORE ]

Second hand goods, classifieds websites and Freecycle beating the credit crunch

Tweet The number of UK Internet searches containing the word ‘second hand’ has increased by 22% over the last 12 months, as UK consumers look for new ways to beat the credit crunch online. During the 12 weeks ending 11 October 2008, UK Internet users searched for over 22,000 distinct terms containing the phrase ‘second [...][ READ MORE ]

Fast moving search terms: Google Chrome, cautious investors, football and flooding

Tweet The 10 fastest moving search terms in the UK last week were: 1. google chrome 2. man city 3. bestival 4. environment agency 5. chrome 6. manchester city 7. burghley horse trials 8. nsandi 9. ns&i 10. setanta sports The appearance of the two Google Chrome related terms in the top 5 is not [...][ READ MORE ]

Act on C02 campaign an environmental success

Tweet A lot of new years’ resolutions will have included a promise to reduce carbon footprints. Therefore it was a shrewd move by the Department of Transport to choose this time of year to launch Act on CO2. As the chart below illustrates, the online and offline campaign has been a success, with searches for [...][ READ MORE ]