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		<title>Christmas Day 2012 retail visits increase 27% compared to 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/12/27/christmas-day-2012-retail-visits-increase-27-compared-to-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 23:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The home stretch for the holidays is nearing as second wind for retailers is just starting as Experian Marketing Services analyzes the post-Christmas retail trend. Christmas Day 2012 saw a 27% increase in online traffic to the top 500 retail sites compared to 2011. The top retail sites received more than 115.5 million total U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook was the top search term in 2012 for fourth straight year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[online behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experian Marketing Services analyzed the top 1,000 search terms from Hitwise data for 2012 , and Facebook was the top-searched term overall in the US. This is the fourth year that the social networking Website has been the top search term overall, accounting for 4.13 percent of all searches, a 33 percent increase from 2011. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online retail visits increase 8% year over year week of Dec 9 – 15</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/12/18/online-retail-visits-increase-8-year-over-year-week-of-dec-9-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the busy holiday marketing season in full swing, Experian Marketing Services has released its online retail round-up for the week ending December 15. The online traffic to the top 500 retail sites increased 8% for the period of December 9 – 15, compared to the same week in 2011. Additionally, Amazon remained the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online retail visits increase 5% year over year week of Dec 2 – 8</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/12/14/online-retail-visits-increase-5-year-over-year-week-of-dec-2-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Search Intelligence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the busy holiday marketing season in full swing, Experian Marketing Services has released its online retail round-up for the week ending December 8. The online traffic to the top 500 retail sites increased 5% for the period of December 2 – 8, compared to the same week in 2011. Additionally, Amazon remained the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber Monday online retail traffic increased 11% in 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/11/27/cybermonday2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 22:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the strong holiday push from this past holiday weekend online traffic on Cyber Monday increased 11% in 2012 versus 2011 as the top 500 retail sites received more than 206.8 million total US visits. So far this past Holiday week of online traffic from Thanksgiving Day to Cyber Monday to retail sites is up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Friday retail traffic increased 7% in 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/11/25/blackfriday2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 04:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Black Friday online traffic increased 7% in 2012 versus 2011 as the top 500 retail sites received more than 193.8 million total US visits. So far this Holiday week of online traffic to the top retail sites is up 10% on average.  Online retail traffic was up 1% on Black Friday compared to Thanksgiving Day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Day retail traffic increased 6% in 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/11/24/thanksgivingday012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Day online traffic increased 6% in 2012 versus 2011  as the top 500 retail sites received more than 192.5 million total US visits. So far this Holiday week of online traffic to the top retail sites is up 11% on average.  Retail traffic also increased 43% on Thanksgiving Day 2012 versus the day before. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online retail visits increase 10% heading into the Holiday weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/11/21/pre-holidaytraffic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we head into the busiest Holiday shopping weekend the total US visits to the top 500 retail sites increased 10% this past week compared to the same time in 2011. The top 500 retail sites received more than 666.8 million visits for the week ending Nov. 17, 2012. Retail sites have been steadily growing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second presidential debate spawns new Internet meme</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/10/19/debate-internet-meme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/10/19/debate-internet-meme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The second presidential debate took place on Tuesday, Oct. 16th and both the Obama and Romney websites saw increases in total US visits the day after the second debate as Obama’s site saw a 41% increase and Romney’s site saw a 33% increase. Heading up to the debate the battle for swing state votes is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google share of searches at 65% in September 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/10/17/searchengines-sept12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/10/17/searchengines-sept12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One-word searches increased 14% versus 2011 and eight word searches increase 6% versus August 2011 Google accounted for 65.26% of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending September 29, 2012 according to Experian Marketing Services. The combined Bing-powered search comprised 26.58% of searches for the month, with Yahoo! Search and Bing receiving 13.77% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google share of searches at 65% in August 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/09/28/searchengines-aug12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experian Hitwise data shows Bing-powered share of searches up 1% in August 2012; 1-word searches increased 15% versus 2011 Google accounted for 65.28% of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending September 1, 2012. The combined Bing-powered search comprised 26.96% of searches for the month, with Yahoo! Search and Bing receiving 13.97% and 12.99%, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone 5 ranked as 8th most popular search in US</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/09/27/iphone5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the iPhone 5 went on sale last Friday, a look back at the search activity shows that the iPhone 5 announcement on September 12th caused  US searches on the term “iPhone 5” to rank as the 8th most popular search query on the Internet that day. Last week, searches for iPhone 5 increased 362% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google share of searches at 66 percent in July 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/08/10/searchenginesjuly2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/08/10/searchenginesjuly2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Experian Hitwise data shows Bing-powered share of searches increased 1% in July 2012; One-word searches increased 21%in July 2012 versus the same time for 2011 Experian Hitwise announced that Google accounted for 65.70 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending July 28, 2012. The combined Bing-powered search comprised 26.95 percent of searches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job sites see 18% growth online in July 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/08/07/jobgrowthjuly2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/08/07/jobgrowthjuly2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The monthly US jobs figures released on August 3rd  stated that the U.S. economy added more jobs in July 2012 despite overall unemployment increasing according to the recent Labor Department report. This trend holds true online as the total US visits to our category of Employment sites increased 8% in July 2012 compared to June 2012 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engaging the Modern Consumer</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/05/25/engaging-the-modern-consumer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/05/25/engaging-the-modern-consumer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experian Hitwise recently launched AudienceView which provides a timely solution that delivers a complete view into to the behaviors of your most valuable customers and prospects in order to drive better marketing decisions. Engaging today’s consumers requires brands to connect in a meaningful way to build a lasting customer relationship. AudienceView integrates the world’s largest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>15 Stats About Facebook</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/05/16/15-stats-about-facebook/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/05/16/15-stats-about-facebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the upcoming Facebook IPO launch on Friday, we have updated a previous post based on US data showing the impact Facebook has online with its growth over the years. Here are 15 stats for the May 18th IPO: Facebook.com received 9% of all US Internet visits in April 2012. Facebook.com received more than 1.6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Fantasy Football visits are highest in 3 years</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/09/23/2011-fantasy-football-visits-are-highest-in-3-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/09/23/2011-fantasy-football-visits-are-highest-in-3-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NFL lockout may have shortened the normal buildup to the NFL season, but once it ended online traffic to NFL-related sites saw a boost. As a result US visits to Fantasy Football sites increased 24% in August 2011 versus August 2010. Through last week US visits to Fantasy Football sites were up 28% compared [...]]]></description>
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