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Is Google Driving Down the Value of Domain Names?

Robin Cannon in Search Engine Journal asks the somewhat puzzling question, ‘Is Google Trumping The URL?‘ Apparently more and more people use Google to find websites than type in the URL in the address bar of their browser. As he says:

Hitwise Stats Paint Twitter As Tiny But Strong

Anecdotal evidence and personal experience are all well and good, especially where popularity contests are concerned.  Hard data works, too, though, and Hitwise's Heather Hopkins has weighed in with stats on how Twitter is doing.

Hitwise Reexamines AdWords UK Change

As UK businesses brace for Google's policy change on trademark bidding, there's a growing amount of evidence that they'll be hit hard.  Today, Hitwise's Robin Goad provided several solid examples.

Home Searches Drop, As Do Prices For Houses

The persistence of housing woes may be seen in the activities of searchers, who perform fewer and fewer queries about home buying.

Search Engines Increasingly Important To Video Sites

Video sites should thank comedy shows, car magazines, and news anchors for traffic - they've been plugged by all of them.  Search engines and social networks also belong on that list, though, and new Hitwise data shows that they're about even in terms of significance.

Hitwise Looks At The Effects Of Google's Blacklist

Ever get annoyed when a cold or the flu knocks you out of commission for a couple of days?  Hitwise examined a site blacklisted by Google, and found that it's still floundering 11 weeks after the fact.

Google Book Search Gets Traffic Boost

Some of the features Google introduces do little more than collect dust, while others become extremely popular.  The Books Viewability API appears to be part of this second set, as traffic to the UK version of Google Book Search has increased by a dramatic amount since its introduction.

YouTube, Google Video Grab 77% of Vid Market

Google may dominate around two-thirds of the search market, but the company's grip around the online video market is tighter. Hitwise reports that YouTube and Google video combined grab over 77 percent of US video visits.In March, YouTube snagged 73.18 percent of US visits, a 32 percent increase over March 2007. Despite decreasing by 52 percent, Google Video maintained third place at 4.06 percent, compared to 8.42 percent last year.

The Web Becomes Apathetic To Politics

It would seem that people have either made up their minds, postponed a decision, or plain don't care.  Regardless, statistics indicate that online interest (as represented by searches and traffic) in the presidential election is waning.

Hitwise Puts Google Docs In Decent Position

Google Docs is growing stronger - so much so that I at first thought Hitwise's assessment was another April Fool's joke.  But visits to the Google Docs site have indeed more than doubled in the last year.