Google accounted for 65.28% of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending September 1, 2012. One word search queries increase 15% in August 2012.

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Since the iPhone 5 went on sale last Friday, a look back at the search activity shows that the iPhone 5 announcement on September 12th caused US searches on the term “iPhone 5” to rank as the 8th most popular search query on the Internet that day. Last week, searches for iPhone 5 increased 362% [...]

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Experian Hitwise announced that Google accounted for 65.70 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending July 28, 2012. The combined Bing-powered search comprised 26.95 percent of searches for the month, with Yahoo! Search and Bing receiving 13.83 percent and 13.12 percent, respectively.

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Where is all the monthly online employment traffic coming from? California, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas and New York provided the largest volume of traffic to Job sites in July 2012. The states that recorded the biggest year-over-year growth to Jobs sites included Maine, New Mexico, West Virginia, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

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With the upcoming Facebook IPO launch on Friday, we have updated a previous post based on US data showing the impact Facebook has online with its growth over the years. Here are 15 stats for the May 18th IPO: Facebook.com received 9% of all US Internet visits in April 2012. Facebook.com received more than 1.6 [...]

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Experian Hitwise recently launched AudienceView which provides a timely solution that delivers a complete view into to the behaviors of your most valuable customers and prospects in order to drive better marketing decisions. Engaging today’s consumers requires brands to connect in a meaningful way to build a lasting customer relationship. AudienceView integrates the world’s largest [...]

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With retailers extending deals even sooner during the Thanksgiving holiday week, Peak Week took on even greater importance as online stores saw tremendous success across online traffic and email transactional activity for Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

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For the first seven years of studying online holiday shopping behavior, Experian Hitwise has been accurate in predicting the peak day for online traffic to retail sites. Here’s a look at what we’ve seen historically and what we’re predicting this year.

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