Posts Tagged ‘ Search ’

Budget 2010: the online response

Tweet As expected, yesterday’s budget, presented by the Chancellor, George Osborne, gained a huge amount of press coverage. Given the wide range of changes introduced, it is not a surprise to see that many people went online to research both the key points and finer details. Yesterday (22/06/10) 1 in every 179 UK searches was [...][ READ MORE ]

Budweiser tops the Experian Hitwise World Cup Brands Index during week 2

Tweet Budweiser, an official FIFA World Cup sponsor and sponsor of the USA team, was the brand that made the most of its World Cup involvement last week. UK Internet searches for Budweiser increased by 25% between the week ending June 12th and the week ending June 19th and its Experian Hitwise World Cup Brands [...][ READ MORE ]

Rio Ferdinand the most searched for footballer in the UK; Cristiano Ronaldo the most popular around the world

Tweet Last week 1 in every 155 search terms typed into a search engine in the UK were World Cup related. However, this number refers only to terms containing variations on the phrase ‘world cup’; there are obviously lots of other types of search taking place as a result of events in south Africa not [...][ READ MORE ]

Social networks now more popular than search engines in the UK

Tweet Social networks now receive more UK Internet visits than search engines. During May, social networks accounted for 11.88% of UK Internet visits and search engines accounted for 11.33%. May was the first ever month that social networks have been more popular than search engines in the UK. Facebook accounts for 55% of all UK [...][ READ MORE ]

Flag searches reflect the patriotic mood

Tweet You can’t have failed to notice the number of flags flying in the UK over the last few weeks. Many of those hanging from cars, pubs and windows across the land are England flags, but other nations are represented as well. The reason behind the sudden outburst of national pride is, of course, the [...][ READ MORE ]

World Cup 2010 searches and Panini football stickers

Tweet The World Cup is nearly upon us and, as you would imagine, the Internet is starting to go mad for it. Last week (w/e 29/05/10) UK Internet users searched for nearly 25,000 terms; a few were related to other events, but the vast majority referred to the upcoming festival of football in South Africa. [...][ READ MORE ]

Luxury and bespoke searches: travel, fashion and furniture

Tweet Yesterday I presented at the Luxury Interactive 2010 conference in London, and I thought I’d share a couple of the finding from the research that I carried out for the event. The first thing I did was to look at the most luxurious searches in the UK using our search term suggestions tool. Over [...][ READ MORE ]

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 ]

Leadership debate winners: Lib Dems, Sky News, ITV and Twitter

Tweet Despite the best efforts of an Icelandic volcano to ground all Northern European flights and take (obscure?) the limelight, last week’s leaders’ debate grabbed a lot of media attention. The consensus view is that Nick Clegg came out on top, and UK searches for the Liberal Democrat leader increased 7-fold last week, clearly overtaking [...][ READ MORE ]

Online voter registration

Tweet British citizens flocked to the Internet to register to vote last week following the announcement that the General Election will take place on May 6th. UK Internet searches for the term ‘register to vote’ increased 9-fold between the week ending April 3rd and the week ending April 10th. Between the week ending April 3rd [...][ READ MORE ]