Posts Tagged ‘ Search ’

High School Musical dominates in the year of the downloads

Tweet Following yesterday’s post on the top gadgets in the run up to Christmas, today I reveal the most searched for entertainment products. The most noticable trend is the massive increase in searches for entertainment downloads, which currently outstrip searches for CDs by a factor of 27 and DVDs by a factor of 13. Searches [...][ READ MORE ]

Hot Christmas gadgets: Nintendo Wii, sat nav and iPods

Tweet Christmas, of course, comes earlier every year. For retailers it starts earlier than most as they try to identify the year’s ‘must have’ gifts. In order to give them a bit of a hand, we’ve spent the last week analyzing search data in order to make some predictions as to what we think will [...][ READ MORE ]

O2, Led Zeppelin and the iPhone

Tweet Two big music stories have caught the media’s attention over the last couple of weeks. Firstly there was the announcement last Wednesday (September 12th) that the remaining members of Led Zeppelin are to reform for a one off reunion concert in November. This was followed yesterday (September 18th) by the UK launch of Apple’s [...][ READ MORE ]

Property search terms

Tweet We’ll be presenting a property webinar tomorrow that will expand on our recent analysis of searches for overseas properties. Today I wanted to share some additional property-related findings to whet your appetite for the webinar. The table below illustrates the most popular UK search term suggestions for ‘flats’, ‘houses’ and ‘property’ over the last [...][ READ MORE ]

Cheap vs. Free

Tweet This week’s Guardian Siteseeing column was inspired by Sandra’s and Bill’s recent posts on search value determinants. The main similarity between search behaviours in the UK and the other regions is the use of ‘cheap’ to search for travel and holiday products, although where Brits are looking for train tickets, Americans prefer car rentals. [...][ READ MORE ]

Amy Winehouse and Klaxons receive Mercury Prize boost

Tweet Nu-ravers Klaxons were the surprise winners of the Nationwide Mercury Music Prize this week, beating favourite Amy Winehouse. However, it was the ‘troubled’ soul singer that received most of the press attention following her performance at the awards ceremony. Internet searches for ‘amy winehouse’ have increased by 84% over the last four weeks and [...][ READ MORE ]

Delia Smith is top chef: let her cook cake

Tweet Bill recently wrote a very interesting Time column on America’s favourite foods. Following his example I decided to investigate the BBC Food website – the most visited food website in the UK – for this week’s Siteseeing column in the Guardian. It turned out that the most popular searches containing the term ‘recipe’ sending [...][ READ MORE ]

Xbox 360 Price Cut – Updated on Console Wars

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 [...][ READ MORE ]

How to Write a CV and Other Burning Questions

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 [...][ READ MORE ]

Global Warming UK Traffic Goes to US Sites

Tweet We issued a news release last week about the increased interest online in global warming, recycling and carbon footprints. I wanted to highlight and delve further into one of the points from that release. The increased interest in global warming raises interesting challenges for policy makers and those seeking to influence public opinion within [...][ READ MORE ]