Pew: Almost 20 Percent of Internet Users Update Status With Twitter (Or Other Social Net)
Oct 22, 2009 at 9:18am ET by Greg Sterling
Already widely reported from yesterday the Pew Internet & American Life almost 20 percent of US Internet users are on Twitter or updating their status with another social network: LinkedIn, MySpace or Facebook. According to the report:
Some 19% of internet users now say they use Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves, or to see updates about others. This represents a significant increase over previous surveys in December 2008 and April 2009, when 11% of internet users said they use a status-update service.
Three groups of internet users are mainly responsible for [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Social Search Engines, Stats: General, Twitter
UK Report: 1 in 3 Kids Think Top Search Rankings Most “Truthful”
Oct 8, 2009 at 9:39am ET by Greg Sterling
A new and wide ranging report from the UK regulatory agency Ofcom about media literacy finds that 32 percent of UK kids aged 12-15 years old believe that the links/listings shown at the top of search results are the most "truthful." Here's how the report summarized this finding:
Among children aged 12-15 who use the internet, almost all have experience of using search engine websites (94%).
Those who use search engine sites were shown a list of options and were asked to say which, if any, apply in terms of the way results are shown on search engine sites.
There is no clear consensus [...]
Filed in: Stats: General, Stats: Relevancy
Has Bing’s Growth Stalled?
Oct 2, 2009 at 9:20am ET by Greg Sterling
Since it's launch Bing has steadily been inching up in market share, conveying the impression that Google has a bona fide competitor on its hands. Yesterday, however, data from NetApplications and StatCounter reflect that Bing may have seen its first usage declines since the engine's launch several months ago.
Before getting too excited one way or another, we must be cautious. There are monthly upticks and downturns. Before drawing any broader conclusions we'd need to see this confirmed by comScore, Hitwise, Nielsen, Compete -- in other words, a consensus view -- and then we'd need to look [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Stats: General, Stats: Popularity, Top News
Google Launches “Google Internet Stats”
Sep 10, 2009 at 9:40am ET by Barry Schwartz
It appears Google has pulled together a bunch of statistics throughout the web and created a small landing page named Google Internet Stats on the Google UK front. The page explains that this service "brings together the latest industry facts and insights together in one place." Google collected this data from many third party vendors, on a wide range of topics. In fact, you can submit your data using this form.
Here is a picture of the mobile technology internet stats from this tool:
The categories of statistics include:
- Consumer Trends
-- Community
-- Entertainment
-- Infor [...]
Filed in: Google: Marketing, Google: Trends, Stats: General, Top News
Bing’s Paid Click Share Still Rising: Report
Aug 12, 2009 at 7:28am ET by Matt McGee
Bing's share of paid search clicks is up 44% since its launch at the start of June. That's according to a blog post from SEM provider Efficient Frontier.
As the company reported last month in its quarterly report, Bing continues to show strength in the Travel and Finance categories, with gains of 11% and 22%, respectively. [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Stats: General
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