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	<title>Hitwise Blog &#187; Google</title>
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		<title>Google+ growth since launch</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/07/20/google-growth-since-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, June 28th, Google launched their latest foray in the social networking arena with Google+. In the days following the launch, as invites became more readily available, visits to Google+ steadily increased, particularly between July 5th and July 12th. To date, Tuesday, July 12th and Thursday, July 14th were the peak days for total [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Impact of paywall on NYTimes.com</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/04/11/impact-of-paywall-on-nytimes-com/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/04/11/impact-of-paywall-on-nytimes-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Subscriptions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[News and Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of speculation, the paywall for The New York Times went live at 2pm on Monday, March 28th, which limits online readers (non-print subscribers) to 20 articles each month. For smartphone and tablet applications, only the top news section will remain free and access to other sections will need a subscription. To understand the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Holiday retail gets more social</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/01/05/holiday-retail-gets-more-social/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/01/05/holiday-retail-gets-more-social/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shopping and Classifieds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With Facebook ranked as the #1 website in the US, retailers have been increasingly turning to social media to communicate with current and potential customers, particularly during the critical holiday shopping season. As a traffic driver, the Social Networking and Forums category ranked 3rd overall behind Search Engines and cross-shopping across other retailers in the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Facebook.com generates nearly 1 in 4 page views in the US</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/11/19/facebook-com-generates-nearly-1-in-4-page-views-in-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/11/19/facebook-com-generates-nearly-1-in-4-page-views-in-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March, we reported an important milestone when the market share of visits to Facebook.com* surpassed Google.com*. Since then, we have continued to watch the growth of Facebook.com, which increased 60% from the same week last year and represented 1 in 10 US Internet visits last week. The amount of content consumption taking place on [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Strength in numbers for group buying deals</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/04/23/strength-in-numbers-for-group-buying-deals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/04/23/strength-in-numbers-for-group-buying-deals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shopping and Classifieds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Social commerce and group buying has become increasingly popular these days, on Tuesday, The New York Times reported that Groupon received an investment of $135 million dollars from Digital Sky Technologies. Additionally, last month, another group buying website, LivingSocial, received an investment of $25 million dollars. With investors eager to back companies in this space, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Facebook Hits #1 on Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/01/04/facebook-hits-1-on-christmas-and-new-years-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/01/04/facebook-hits-1-on-christmas-and-new-years-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The main Google page has been ranked the most visited site on a daily basis for U.S. Internet users. That statement has held true for 364 days of 2009. Google&#8217;s dominance of &#8220;all category&#8221; visits was disrupted when Facebook visits surged on Christmas Day. Facebook was able, albeit by a slighter margin, to recapture the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s rumored Music service launch today</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/10/28/googles-rumored-music-service-launch-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/10/28/googles-rumored-music-service-launch-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google is expected to launch their music service this afternoon, so we decided to look at some of Google&#8217;s history with the Music category. Of course we all know that the majority of people start with Google for search &#8211; last month, 71% of all searches took place on Google. Out of the top 1000 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Visits to Gmail surpass YouTube</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/03/10/visits-to-gmail-surpass-youtube/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/03/10/visits-to-gmail-surpass-youtube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past two weeks, the market share of US Internet visits to Gmail has been higher than visits to YouTube. Previously, YouTube consistently ranked 10th among all websites by market share of visits until the week ending Jan. 10, 2009, where Gmail moved up one rank to reach #10. The websites have been swapping [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Holiday Search Referral Growth</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/01/16/holiday-search-referral-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/01/16/holiday-search-referral-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search engines accounted for the largest share of upstream traffic to the Retail 500 ahead of cross-shopping on other retail websites and email during the holiday months of November and December. An integral part of every retailer&#8217;s marketing strategy; the share of visits being referred by the combination of paid and organic search has grown [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Retailers still keen on search</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/12/23/retailers-still-keen-on-search/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/12/23/retailers-still-keen-on-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2008/12/23/retailers-still-keen-on-search/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Search remains king for retailers during this holiday season, with referrals from search engines responsible for driving the largest share of visits to the Retail 500. Last week, 30% of the upstream traffic to the Retail 500 was from search engines, up 6% from the same week last year. Google represented 72% of all search [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Will searches on new BlackBerry models predict success</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/10/28/will-searches-on-new-blackberry-models-predict-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/10/28/will-searches-on-new-blackberry-models-predict-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent release of the G1 (aka Google phone) through T-Mobile and soon to be released Blackberry Bold &#038; Storm prompted me to compare search activity among the new handheld devices. We often compare the search volume on new products to gauge the strength of consumer interest and how that may translate into sales. The [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Google Chrome Stats</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/09/04/google-chrome-stats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/09/04/google-chrome-stats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday the news of the launch of Google&#8217;s browser Chrome flooded the major news outlets, both online &#038; off, adding a new competitor to the browser wars between Firefox &#038; IE. In one day, Google Chrome reached the #12 ranking in our Computers &#038; Internet &#8211; Software category out of 2,553 websites. The market [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>YouTube / Google Video Update</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2006/01/27/youtube-google-video-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2006/01/27/youtube-google-video-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LeeAnn Prescott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my post last month on YouTube and the SNL Chronicles of Narnia rap, YouTube has continued to gain market share against other video search sites, and since surpassing Google Video, it has also surpassed Yahoo! Video Search in the past few days, as you can see on the chart below. I also added iFilm, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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