Posts Tagged ‘ Education ’
Encyclopedia Britannica announced yesterday that it will embrace Web 2.0 with plans to allow individuals to submit edits for review to entries in the online encyclopedia. The announcement included sharp words from Britannica president, Jorge Cauz, for Google, criticizing the frequency with which Wikipedia appears at the top of the SERP (Search Engine Results Page). [...][ READ MORE ]
As High School seniors scramble to complete college applications stories abound about rising tuition costs and shrinking endowments. I wondered if online universities might be benefiting from the recession. Visits to online universities are up 43% year over year compared to a 22% decline in visits to the Education – Institutions category as a whole. [...][ READ MORE ]
This week’s Science of Search column is live on the TIME.com website (here). I’m sure this will touch a nerve with some, but in the article I decided to talk about a trend that we’ve noticed in the Hitwise Research group, that search term data and traffic patterns indicated that a good portion of visits [...][ READ MORE ]
We have been asked to shed some insight on how much traffic Wikipedia receives from Google. Hitwise data showed that for the week ending Feb 10, 2007, 70% of Wikipedia’s upstream visits came from search engines, with 50% from Google alone. Google’s share of Wikipedia’s upstream traffic from Google has increased by 19% over the [...][ READ MORE ]
Search Engine Land had an interesting post about question and answer sites today that linked to a thorough reviewfrom MIT Technology Review of six of these sites. Yahoo! Answers was the clear winner, which is can partly be attributed to its sheer volume of users. I created a custom category of the six sites mentioned [...][ READ MORE ]
I received an email this week from Stephen Dubner over at Freakonomics regarding a post he was writing. Stephen posed a very interesting question… could our data shed any light on whether interest in 9/11 has diminished the remembrance of Pearl Harbor. I provided the following chart showing the volume of queries (U.S.) for “pearl [...][ READ MORE ]
The market share of US visits to Wikipedia has been growing steadily over the past few years. In September 2006, it ranked as the 20th most visited internet domain in the US, up 204% since September 2005. Search engines were responsible for 69% of Wikipedia’s upstream traffic, and the majority of that traffic comes from [...][ READ MORE ]
