Posts Tagged ‘ News and Media ’
This week’s controversy about Dubai Ports World operating US ports was quelled yesterday when the company announced it would hand over its six US port operations to a US entity. As the controversy has heated up in recent weeks, searches on ‘dubai’ and ‘dubai ports world’ skyrocketed, increasing by 159% and 552% respectively for the [...][ READ MORE ]
Last week we reported that visits to NBCOlympics.com nearly exceeded visits to New York Times as Olympics fans opted for real-time online coverage over pre-recorded television results. As we expected, visits to NBCOlympics.com peaked on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006, the day of the women’s individual figure skating finals. On that day, NBCOlympics.com ranked at number [...][ READ MORE ]
Today we sent out a press release on Valentine’s Day search activity, which included “love poems,” and “flowers.” For those unattached men, there is a consolation prize for not having to buy flowers and chocolates – the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition was released today, with a significant online presence. Online features include free videos, iTunes [...][ READ MORE ]
Last week the news was abuzz on the revelation on The Smoking Gun that parts of James Frey’s bestselling memoir “A Million Little Pieces” may have been fabricated. Indeed, Internet searches for “james frey” were up 452% for the week ending 1/14/06 vs. the prior week, and searches for “a million little pieces” were up [...][ 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 ]
