Posts Tagged ‘ Search ’

Google Image Search Top Site After Google UK

Tweet This week in our Site Seeing column in the Guardian (sorry it’s still not available online so I can’t link to it), we profiled Google Image Search, the top website visited after Google in the UK. More than three-quarters of UK visits to Google UK Image Search come from the Google search engine. The [...][ READ MORE ]

Panama UK Launch – Updated Search Stats

Tweet With today’s launch of Yahoo!’s Panama search platform, we thought it worthwhile to update our search engine share statistics. The following chart shows a year on year comparison of the share of UK Internet searches powered by the top four search engines. In the four weeks to 26th May 2007, Google accounted for 78% [...][ READ MORE ]

Google Checkout – US Take-Up and UK Launch

Tweet Google Checkout recently launched in the UK and I wanted to share some statistics about the take up so far in the US where Google Checkout has been available for just less than a year and in the UK where it has just launched. The following chart shows the monthly market share of US [...][ READ MORE ]

Crocs Shoes Most Searched for Fashion Item in UK

Tweet UK searches for “crocs” have increased 8-fold in the past 3 months, and have taken the #1 spot as the most searched for fashion item. The share of UK Internet searches for “crocs” is up from a base of zero in the same week in 2006. We on the research team at Hitwise like [...][ READ MORE ]

Search Engine Share Stats from BBC Interview

Tweet This morning (very early this morning) I was interviewed on BBC TV for the World Business Report about Yahoo!’s earnings announcement. I wanted to share the updated search stats I pulled for the interview here and share some of my comments. First, the updated search engine share stats for the UK: The last time [...][ READ MORE ]

What is the Optimal Balance of Paid and Organic Search Traffic?

Tweet In the UK, we recently launched paid and organic search terms, to show the mix of paid and organic search traffic going to websites and to show the specific paid and organic terms. In this post, I’ll share some of that data for the top 10 Insurance and Appliances and Electronics websites in February, [...][ READ MORE ]

eBay, Bebo, Games and Weather Top UK Search Terms in 2006

Tweet Today we announced our top search terms for 2006 in the UK and I wanted to share the data as well as add to it. For those of you very familiar with consumer search data, it will come as no surprise that the highest volume search terms across the web continue to be brand [...][ READ MORE ]

Search Landscape in the UK Post 1 of 2

Tweet Yesterday we published a news release with an update on the share of searches powered by the leading search engines and some analysis of paid and organic traffic going to some leading websites in the UK. These stats are taken from our search report, published last week. If you are interested in a copy [...][ READ MORE ]

Paid and Organic Search: Profile of MoneySupermarket (Post 1 of 3)

Tweet This week we announced the launch of Search Intelligence 4.0 in which we will begin to report on the paid and organic split in website search terms in the UK and Australia (other markets to follow). In a series of three posts (I am all about series this week), I will provide some analysis [...][ READ MORE ]

Pirates of the Caribbean – The Long Tail of Search

Tweet On Sunday evening I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean at my local cinema. My decision to go to a movie was driven by a need to escape the heat and my choice of film was based on Hitwise Search Intelligence data and my regret at having missed the first in the Pirates [...][ READ MORE ]