WebProNews

The Traffic News Corp. Would Lose Without Google

As you may know, Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corp., is saying he may block search engines from accessing the organization's content. He expressed this notion in a recent interview. If Murdoch were to act upon this, it would mean theoretically that you would no longer be able to find Wall Street Journal, New York Post, etc. content on Google. Of course that would be in a world where scraped content isn't frequently crawled by search engines.

New Hitwise Report Exposes Twitter Trouble

Sorry, Twitter fans (and animal lovers), but you'd better brace yourselves for another round of (hopefully Photoshopped) pics featuring birds in cats' mouths and squashed against glass doors.  New stats from Hitwise make it look like Twitter isn't doing so well.

Hitwise Weighs Potential Impact Of Google Music

Rumor has it that a new Google Music service will launch today, and the excitement is almost palpable as the announcement window provided by normal business hours narrows.  Or not.  Anyway, Hitwise took a look at Google's relationship with music sites.

Hitwise: Facebook Receives One-Seventh Of UK Page Views

Google, eBay, and YouTube are all pretty big in the online world - monsters, really.  But in terms of page views - and in the UK - none of seem to them even approach Facebook's popularity, as new Hitwise stats indicate that the social network receives about one-seventh of all page views.

Hitwise: Facebook's Social Market Share Up 194 Percent

More stats regarding Facebook's astonishing growth rate were released today.  Hitwise puts the social network's market share of U.S. Internet visits up on a month-over-month basis, way up on a year-over-year basis, and it made significant gains in the "time spent" category, too. Let's first look at the market share data.  Hitwise created a custom category of social networking sites, and within it, Facebook's market share was 58.59 percent in September of this year.  That puts it up by a fair amount over its standing of 55.15 percent in August.

Hitwise Finds Bing Down By Five Percent

Last week, StatCounter indicated that Bing had experienced its first bad month, losing market share between August and September.  Some people, perhaps understandably, had trouble accepting this.  But Hitwise has now provided its own figures, and they, too, show that Microsoft's new offering hit a rough patch. 

Photo Inclusion Can Bring in Traffic

Hitwise has released some interesting data regarding photo-searching habits. The concept was conceived of as the firm noticed the popularity of the search "great north run photos". "This made me curious about the popularity of searches for photos related to big events and news stories," says Hitwise's Robin Goad.

UK News Sites Getting Big Traffic from US

British news sites are starting to see a lot more traffic from the US. UK Internet visits to News and Media websites grew by 8% last year according to Hitwise, and US Internet visits to UK News and Media sites have gone up by 54%.

Facebook in the News for Several Reasons

As you may know, Facebook surpassed MySpace in traffic a while back. New data from Hitwise indicates that the launch of Facebook Connect likely played a major role in this. The following graph shows a major increase in market share of social networking visits starting with the time when Facebook Connect was launched:

Twitter Performing Well In Australia

Twitter fans should be pleased to hear that it's almost definitely taking over the world.  U.S. stats have long indicated a strong growth pattern, data from the U.K. has done the same, and now, Hitwise has presented a report on Twitter's increasing influence on Australia.