Posts Tagged ‘ Fast Moving Search Terms ’
The 2012 London Summer Olympic Games closed with a tremendous party Sunday evening, but we couldn’t resist just one more friendly competition: of the beloved athletes who led the U.S. to the most medals at these games, which are the most searched? Over the past few weeks we have tracked online searches of the U.S. [...][ READ MORE ]
It’s already acknowledged that recent incidents in Charlie Sheen’s life and his subsequent barrage of interviews have created an online feeding frenzy. Indeed, Sheen has won the Guinness World Record for fastest time to reach one million followers on Twitter – he had gained over 100,000 followers without publishing a single tweet. On the same [...][ READ MORE ]
Everyone is aware by now about the season’s hottest toy, Zhu Zhu Pets, especially after the brief scare regarding Mr. Squiggles toxicity (he has been fully exonerated). This year’s other runaway hit and hard to find item is the Mindflex game which features a maze where you levitate a ball using your mind (definitely check [...][ READ MORE ]
At Hitwise we’re always fielding questions about the impact of offline events upon online behavior from our clients and some great examples surround popular television events like the Super Bowl, Oprah’s Favorite Things and the Oscars. Following last week’s telecast of the award show; searches for Oscar-related content dominated the Entertainment category last week as [...][ READ MORE ]
The short holiday season is rapidly coming to an end, but shoppers have not given up on looking for the hot products online. The Wii Fit continues to dominate the fast moving search terms list, when comparing the top searches to the Appliances & Electronics and Toys & Hobbies categories for last week with the [...][ READ MORE ]
Early voting has been underway in many states and Internet users are turning to search to help them find out about the process. The term ‘early voting’ was ranked fourth among the Fast Moving Search Terms for the Politics category for the 4 weeks ending 10/25/2008 as compared to previous 4 week period. Another common [...][ READ MORE ]
The Wall Street crisis and potential bailout is certainly top of mind for many consumers, but tragedy sent Travis Barker (former drummer of Blink 182 and star of MTV’s Meet the Barkers) to the top of Fast Moving Search Terms last week. On Friday, Travis and Adam Goldstein (DJ AM) escaped from a plane crash [...][ READ MORE ]
As a frequent visitor to Montauk, I was fascinated by the story on Gawker last week about the ‘Montauk Monster’. After checking it out, I assumed that this would be a mostly local tale for New Yorkers that head out to the beach during the summer and the full-time residents of Long Island. Instead, the [...][ READ MORE ]
