Global Search Engine Usage Grows by 46% in 2009
comScore, Inc. released a study on the growth in global searches in 2009. The study indicated the U.S. remains the largest search market and Google maintained their global search market lead with a 58 percent rise over last year. Google had more than 87 billion searches or 66.8% of the global search market. Yahoo came […]
Bing Hits the High Road in the US – Share Over 10%
Clickz’s Jack Marshall brings us the report that Bing has gone over the 10% share mark in the US – a truly remarkable shift. The data is from Nielsen and shows that Bing grew at a rate of over 22% in August against Google’s 2.9% growth. Yahoo meanwhile declined at a rate of -4.2%. Most […]
Europe overtakes Asia in number of searches
Comparing data released by comScore this year and comparing what they said last year, the story emerges the Europe has actually surged ahead in terms of number of searches. This is partly due to the wide number of countries in the European region – particularly including Russia which is surging ahead on all cylinders search-wise […]
Pear Analytics Report Shows 40% of all Tweets are Useless
The study examined a sample of US Tweets and provides interesting insights on how people are using Twitter: * 40% of Tweets are BLA BLA (people talking … about themselves) * 37% are conversational (people talking to people) * 8.7% are informational (RE TWEETS, people relaying useful, interesting information) The report provides numerous metrics including a section called Why Teens Aren’t Using Twitter where a 15 year old intern at Morgan Stanley finds Twitter not safe, and explains why teens prefer FaceBook and MySpace.
Nielsen report: Brazil leads the world in social network websites
According to a new Nielsen report Brazil is the country with more people using social networks websites. Brazilian users are also leading on time spent. Nielsen reports that 80% of online users in Brazil are registered on social networks, followed by Spain with 75%, Italy 73% and Japan 70%. Facebook is the leading network in […]
Using mobile phones as a cultural lens
The Complexity and Social Networks Blog presents an interesting paper on mobile phone users and data stored in service provider databases around the world, discussing the different types of data captured and how it can be used to provide insight into human cultures. Examples are provided from a variety of cultures and hundreds of millions […]
Online profits to reach 33.7 billion online in Europe
According to the The European Information Technology Observatory (EITO): Revenues from Internet access growing by more than 10 percent Telephone flat rates and online video sales are stimulating business Germany is the largest single market in the EU with a 25 percent share The increase in revenue (+10.7% in 2008) is attributed to the falling […]
International growth saves Google as US flatlines
Yesterday, Google announced its second quarter figures showing that international revenues represented all revenue growth for the last 9 months with the US virtually flatlining. Growth in revenue compared to last year was 39% and 3% compared with the first quarter of the year giving a total quarter turnover of $5.3 billion. Clicks decreased by […]
Statistics on internet access in Italy by AUDIWEB
Audiweb published latest statistics on Internet usage in Italy, May 2008
Visa predicts e-commerce in Latin America to surpass $16 billion this year
Study by Visa Inc. providing Business to Consumer E-Commerce sales figures for leading Latin American markets and the Caribbean.