Posts Tagged ‘ Government ’
The Social Security Administration may not be the first website that comes to mind when thinking about search or social, but these two sources combined accounted for half of the traffic referrals in October 2010. Search engines referred 43% of the upstream traffic to the website of the Social Security Administration and of those visitors, [...][ READ MORE ]
The Ontario government surprised many of us a couple of weeks back with a cheque. Before many had seen news coverage of the HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) rebate, the funds had already made their way into bank accounts across the province. Hitwise data reveals that searches including the word “HST” peaked in the week ending [...][ READ MORE ]
Last week, the search term “2008 tax rebate” was among the fast moving search terms based on volume of searches. Not a big surprise. What I found interesting was that I could use this bit of data to try to figure out what segment of America is most excited about the tax rebate. My theory [...][ READ MORE ]
In recent weeks the debate over immigration has intensified as the Senate considers a bill that could fundamentally change US immigration policy. Searches on ‘immigration’ have increased by 69% in the last week (week ending 4/1/06 vs. week ending 3/25/06), and further analysis of these searches proves revealing: The leading site typically receiving traffic from [...][ READ MORE ]
