Posts Tagged ‘ Shopping and Classifieds ’
A post on John Battelle’s Searchblog today mentioned that a Google search for ‘amazon.com’ was not returning results. I checked this out for myself, as you can see below. Very strange. However, each of the links on the page returns a result that will get you to Amazon. Searches for ‘ebay.com’ and ‘yahoo.com’ returned results [...][ READ MORE ]
Since Google Base launched last November, many have speculated on the threat it poses to eBay, Craigslist and other classifieds sites. By examining Hitwise Clickstream data by industry, we can see which categories of sites people are visiting after Google Base, thus getting an indication of what kind of content is being searched for on [...][ READ MORE ]
On Tuesday, the Department of Commerce issued their report on January retail sales excluding autos. According to the report, retail sales grew 2.3% when compared to January 2005. Below, I’ve created a chart of visits to the Hitwise Retail 100 Index for January 2005 and January 2006. The Index indicates an average daily growth of [...][ READ MORE ]
This week a Reuters article was published regarding the benefit to Macys.com of Federated Department Stores’ converting former May Company stores into Macy’s. I wrote an article about this same topic in Chain Store Age last spring, in which I examined how a national brand will allow Macys.com to gain a larger, national audience and [...][ 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 ]
Today MasterCard Advisors’ Spending Pulse service announced that year-over-year holiday spending increased 8.7%. This is pretty close to the 9% that we predicted going into the holiday season. The chart below provides market share growth for our Retail 100 index (top 100 retailers in our Shopping & Classifieds Category) for 2004 versus 2005. It is [...][ READ MORE ]
Free shipping has long been a key offer from online retailers, to the extent that online shoppers have come to expect it. They also search for it, as the chart below shows, particularly during the holidays. We’ve been finding the new keyword breadth charting function (explained here) very useful in finding trends in searches for [...][ READ MORE ]
In researching this week’s Holiday Retail Series press release on comparison shopping sites, I was surprised to find “pellet stoves” and “wood stoves” among the leading search terms sending visits to sites in that category. Upon on charting the terms, I found that there was a massive increase in searches on these terms in recent [...][ READ MORE ]
