As previously reported, this year’s Black Friday was a record one for e-commerce, having surpassed a billion dollars in spending, according to comScore. Experian Hitwise has also released some data, indicating that Black Friday online retail traffic in the U.S.…
Online Retail Is Ridiculously Strong This Year
Online spending in the U.S. reached an incredible new high on Cyber Monday, hitting $1.46 Billion for the day, according to comScore. This is the heaviest day of online spending in U.S. history, and follows a record Black Friday for…
Google Sees Lowest Search Market Share In 5 Years In UK [Report]
Experian Hitwise has released new data about the search market in the UK, indicating that Google’s share has fallen below 90% in the country. Google’s market share for the month was 89.33%. That’s the first time in as much as…
Bing Search Climbs 5% Year-Over-Year, Google Slips
The Bing-Yahoo tag-team continues to chip away at Google’s dominance in search, according to the latest report from Experian Hitwise, while Google has slipped a little yet still maintains a commanding grip on its overal dominance among search engines. Combined,…
Conflicting Report Shows Google Sinking, Yahoo! Rising
Earlier today, comScore numbers were leaked showing that both Google and Bing were rising slightly in market share at the combined expense of Yahoo! Now, Experian Marketing Services, a different digital information marketer, has released April search engine market share…
Fact: UK Internet Users Actually Pronounce “Search” As “Google”
Experian Hitwise pointed out yesterday that UK internet users’ visits to search engines is sustaining a massive growth rate. Year-on-year, there was an 8.7% increase in visits to search engines when comparing February 2012 and February 2011 and the trend…
Mitt Romney To Win Florida If We Go By Site Traffic
At this point, political pundits seems to think that the Florida Primary race is too close to call. The common belief is that either Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich will come in first, with Paul and Santorum somewhere behind that.…
Experian Hitwise: Google On Six-Month Losing Streak
As Larry Page goes about reorganizing Google to his liking, he might do well to transfer a few extra engineers to the search team. Google’s search engine of course continues to be dominant in the U.S., but new data from…
Bing, Yahoo Increase Market Share Again In February
Although the effect’s reminiscent of what dental tools would do to a gigantic block of marble, Bing and Yahoo continue to chip away at Google’s lead in the search market, according to new data from Experian Hitwise. The two companies’…
Bing’s Market Share Jumps Again
If the people behind Bing happened to make gaining market share a New Year’s resolution, they got off to a great start. Experian Hitwise released new stats this morning, and the firm found that Bing’s market share increased by a significant amount between December and January.
Bing’s market share rose from 10.60 percent in December to 12.81 percent in January, according to Experian Hitwise. That makes for a month-over-month gain of 20.85 percent, which is quite remarkable.