Posts Tagged ‘ Entertainment ’
As I mentioned at SES New York last week, I know what’s on everyone’s mind… How could Stacy Keibler not win Dancing with the Stars. Sure you have to give Jerry Rice props for the effort, but Drew Lachey? Check out the following chart that I showed during the Searchonomics session: Since the show is [...][ READ MORE ]
If you’re going to an Oscar party on Sunday and want to impress your friends with your methodology for picking your winners, here’s the Hitwise method: Chart the weekly share of searches for each nominee from the beginning of 2005 to present and export the data to CSV. Add up the weekly share for the [...][ READ MORE ]
Today Harris Interactive announced the top 10 list of America’s favorite television personalities. What surprised me about the survey was that it included personalities that haven’t had a show in years, such as Bill Cosby and Jerry Seinfeld, and personalities from some popular shows did not make the list, such as Martha Stewart and Dr. [...][ READ MORE ]
Video Search has continued to take off since my post on the Chinese Students Singing Backstreet Boys. Visits to Google Video search have increased by 48% for the week ending 12/24/05 compared to the week of that post (week ending 11/12/05), and visits to Yahoo! Video Search were up 14% in the same period. But [...][ READ MORE ]
Google’s Year-End Zeitgeist was released this week, and I was amused at seeing the “Celebrities” section, so I decided to see how the leading sex symbols of the day compared against each other in terms of searches. The top three this year were Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Jessica Simpson, who received a greater volume [...][ READ MORE ]
