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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Subscriptions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<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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		<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>iPod Touch and iPad Top Electronics Searches</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/12/22/ipod-touch-and-ipad-top-electronics-searches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/12/22/ipod-touch-and-ipad-top-electronics-searches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Electronics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Strategies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Consumer electronics and gadgets are always popular holiday gifts and this season the iPod Touch, iPad and Amazon&#8217;s Kindle were among the top search terms for CE products over the past 4 weeks. The analysis is based upon a portfolio of over 16,000 products in the consumer electronics category to measure consumer demand. While these [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Search Behavior and Results for Laptops</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/08/18/search-behavior-and-results-for-laptops/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/08/18/search-behavior-and-results-for-laptops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Back to School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Strategies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Laptops have become an increasingly popular and necessary Back to School item, so we used the generic term &#8216;laptops&#8217; to help understand the current search strategies and behavior around this competitive term. Many consumers put significant time and consideration into researching a laptop before committing to the purchase, since computers and electronics tend to have [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bing &#8211; Rising Success (rate)</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/01/14/bing-rising-success-rate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2010/01/14/bing-rising-success-rate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we published our monthly search volume statistics, and as expected Google continues to dominate the space with 72.3% of all U.S. searches executed, while Yahoo! Search and Bing shares were at 14.8% and 8.9% respectively. A far more interesting stat is the positive movement that we&#8217;ve seen in Bing&#8217;s success rate. At Experian Hitwise, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thanksgiving and Black Friday Seasonal Traffic Patterns</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/11/24/thanksgiving-and-black-friday-seasonal-traffic-patterns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/11/24/thanksgiving-and-black-friday-seasonal-traffic-patterns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Friday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyber Monday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shopping and Classifieds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When you start hearing about doorbuster sales and stores opening at 5 am, it can mean only one thing &#8211; Thanksgiving and Black Friday are almost upon us again! Retailers started to promote pre-Black Friday sales as early as late October and have been running sales for much of the month of November, but Friday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bing + Yahoo! Now Equals 26% of Search Market</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/07/29/bing-yahoo-now-equals-26-of-search-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/07/29/bing-yahoo-now-equals-26-of-search-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2009/07/29/bing-yahoo-now-equals-26-of-search-market/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago we posted about the potential deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! . Now that the deal is official, the latest search numbers tell us that Google has 70.6% of all U.S. query volume while the combined Bing and Yahoo! Search now comprise 26% of all U.S. searches, leaving only 3.4% for the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Initial Bing Stats for US and Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/06/10/initial-bing-stats-for-us-and-canada/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/06/10/initial-bing-stats-for-us-and-canada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Strategies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2009/06/10/initial-bing-stats-for-us-and-canada/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Microsoft launched the new version of its search engine, Bing and initial interest has been high due to a major advertising campaign to drive awareness, extensive media coverage, and of course, curiosity. In the US, Bing ranked 17th among all websites out of over 450,000 websites, up from 5120 the week before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Minute Mother&#8217;s Day Planning</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/04/30/last-minute-mothers-day-planning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/04/30/last-minute-mothers-day-planning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mother's Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shopping and Classifieds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The countdown is on for retailers looking to capture Mother&#8217;s Day spending with 10 shopping days left (11 if you are the same-day delivery type, if so &#8211; buy online, pick-up in-store is for you). According to the National Retail Federation, spending on Mother&#8217;s Day gifts is expected to be lower this year due to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who Benefits from Circuit City Closure Online</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/04/09/who-benefits-from-circuit-city-closure-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/04/09/who-benefits-from-circuit-city-closure-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News and Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shopping and Classifieds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2009/04/09/who-benefits-from-circuit-city-closure-online/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in January, Circuit City announced ceasing all operations, so we thought it would be interesting to analyze which retailers have benefited from their exit in the market. The brand Circuit City is very well known and drove a significant share of searches from consumers using the name to navigate. As a result of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Top Searches on Twitter Search</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/04/07/top-searches-on-twitter-search/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2009/04/07/top-searches-on-twitter-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2009/04/07/top-searches-on-twitter-search/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do people search for on Twitter? We collected search terms that we took place within Twitter&#8217;s search engine to identify the topics that are being searched most often on Twitter for the week ending March 21, 2009. Searches for the vampire series &#8216;twilight&#8217; were the most popular for the week overall fueled by the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</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>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shopping and Classifieds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2009/01/16/holiday-search-referral-growth/</guid>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

		<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>MSN Cashback successfully attracting visitors</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/10/03/msn-cashback-successfully-attracting-visitors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/10/03/msn-cashback-successfully-attracting-visitors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shopping and Classifieds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2008/10/03/msn-cashback-successfully-attracting-visitors/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week MSN announced the launch of SearchPerks!, a new promotion that rewards visitors that use Live Search with tickets redeemable for various prizes. The latest endeavor is separate from the Live Search Cashback rebate program launched a few months ago, but certainly uses a similar tactic (pay for search) to reach the same goal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Online shopping traffic remains strong</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/08/18/online-shopping-traffic-remains-strong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/08/18/online-shopping-traffic-remains-strong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shopping and Classifieds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2008/08/18/online-shopping-traffic-remains-strong/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One sector that we continually monitor here at Hitwise for insight into consumer behavior is traffic to the Shopping &#038; Classifieds category. Given the current economic climate, price sensitivity is driving more visits to the websites of online retailers, coupons, and comparison shopping tools as shoppers increasingly research potential purchases online. Overall, the market share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s share of US searches hits 70%</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/08/11/googles-share-of-us-searches-hits-70/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/08/11/googles-share-of-us-searches-hits-70/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2008/08/11/googles-share-of-us-searches-hits-70/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Each month at Hitwise we release the share of searches by each of the major search engines to measure the impact upon the search landscape. The report tends to tell a similar story each month in terms of the ranking by share of searches, but for July (the four weeks ending July 26, 2008); Google [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Google: Does Search Data Indicate a Recession?</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/02/26/google-does-search-data-indicate-a-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/02/26/google-does-search-data-indicate-a-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/ilovedata/2008/02/26/google-does-search-data-indicate-a-recession/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The news is buzzing this morning, starting with a report from UBS that alleges that Google&#8217;s paid clicks are down in January. Analysts from a number of firms have been speculating that this may be a sign that a slowing economy is affecting search. Not so fast. If a recession is in fact affecting search, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSN Search and Ask Audience Profile</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/02/21/msn-search-and-ask-audience-profile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Hopkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got a few requests in my post last week with Yahoo! Search and Google&#8217;s audience profile to show the same data for Ask and MSN Search. In response, I created the following two Lifestyle Quadrant Analyses. The first figure summarizes the audience strengths and weaknesses for search.msn.com and Google.com. Visits by Mosaic Group to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft and Yahoo!: Putting the Offer in Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/02/01/microsoft-and-yahoo-putting-the-offer-in-perspective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/02/01/microsoft-and-yahoo-putting-the-offer-in-perspective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Addendum: There was an error on the properties chart below, percentages for the maps category were transcribed improperly. This morning, as reported by CNN, Microsoft made an unsolicited $44.6 billion stock and cash bid for Yahoo!. To put this potential deal in perspective, we&#8217;ve assembled some Hitwise statistics on MSN, Yahoo! and Google. If we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Thought I&#8217;d Ask(.com)</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/10/25/just-thought-id-ask-com/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/10/25/just-thought-id-ask-com/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While watching television the other night I caught the new Ask.com television ad campaign. I&#8217;ve noticed over the last week that this commercial which demonstrates Ask.com&#8217;s integrated results page compared to other plain vanilla SERPs, has been getting a lot of play during prime time. I decided to revisit our search engine press release for [...]]]></description>
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