Today we issued the second press release in our Hitwise Holiday Series, highlighting the fact that search is driving 48% of visits to the top recipe sites as we approach Thanksgiving. I decided to take this opportunity to pull out one of my favorite charts that demonstrates the trade-off between searches for Thanksgiving Day recipes and visits to the major online dieting sites…

A little food for thought (pun intended). For more holiday food analysis, check out LeeAnn Prescott’s recent entry.
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