Posts Tagged ‘ Search ’

Thomas Cook capitalises on Ryder Cup travel traffic

Tweet Last Friday Thomas Cook made the announcement of a proposed tie up with The Co-operative Travel, bringing together two of the UK’s biggest multi-channel travel companies. According to the Financial Times, the merger will give Thomas Cook a 34% market share of high street travel agent shops. Thomas Cook’s own figures show that 70% [...][ READ MORE ]

Experian and Hitwise at ad:tech: What will be the hot products this Christmas?

Tweet If you’re visiting ad:tech in London over the next couple of days, be sure to pop over to the Experian stand (270a) and say hello to us and our Experian colleagues. At 10:30 on Wednesday I’ll be taking the stage for a presentation entitled “Looking forward to a multi-channel Christmas”. Here’s the blurb: How [...][ READ MORE ]

Fulham and Heineken big search terms ahead of Champions League clash

Tweet The preliminary rounds of the Champions League are over and the tournament proper starts in earnest tonight, with Manchester United taking on Rangers and new boys Tottenham travelling to Germany to face Werder Bremen. The chart below shows how searches for ‘werder’ and ‘werder bremen’ spiked a couple of weeks ago as the play-off [...][ READ MORE ]

New York No1 destination in first ever top 50 flights list

Tweet In our first ever list of the top 50 flight destinations, as searched for by UK Internet users, New York has come out as the most popular destination worldwide. Between May and July 2010 New York was the most popular destination, accounting for 3.89% of all flights searches by UK Internet users. Spain was [...][ READ MORE ]

Google Instant to highlight the long tail not kill it

Tweet Google has made some big changes to its search capabilities with the introduction of Google Instant. Search results now appear instantly in real-time as you type making the new Google search incredibly fast. Whilst initially the introduction of autocomplete to search might not seem like a big deal, a sentiment bluntly expressed by in [...][ READ MORE ]

Surge in searches for fixed rate mortgages

Tweet The number of internet searches for fixed rate mortgages soared between April – June 2010 (Q2) compared to the same time period last year, with searches for the term ‘fixed rate mortgages 10 years’ up almost ten fold over the period. Searches for ‘fixed rate mortgages 5 years’ increased seven fold, while searches for [...][ READ MORE ]

1 in every 100 UK Internet searches Sky Sports related

Tweet Although the lower leagues had already kicked off earlier in the month, the football season truly got underway this weekend with the first Barclays Premier League matches. As you would expect, UK Internet visits to key football related websites increased significantly last week: the Official Fantasy Premier League site by 186%, Sky Sports by [...][ READ MORE ]

Skin Cancer searches and sunshine

Tweet We’re having a great summer in the UK, which makes a pleasant change from the last couple of years. However, there are downsides to the warm weather and sunshine, not least the risk of sunburn and, in the worst cases, skin cancer. Searches for skin cancer are up 19% year on year and have [...][ READ MORE ]

Cameron’s Big Society prompts big traffic spike

Tweet Last week the Prime Minister set out his vision for the “big society”, the flagship social policy of the Conservative-LibDem coalition government. The initiative aims to take the emphasis of responsibility away from the government and instead empower people to run local services such as schools, post offices and transport networks. The idea of [...][ READ MORE ]

Harry Potter fever: Wizarding World theme park, Deathly Hallows, Lego game

Tweet With the unveiling in June of the Universal theme park, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the movie trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and the release of Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4, it’s fair to say that Harry Potter fever is casting a spell over online audiences again. Of the 32 [...][ READ MORE ]