Searches for a number of terms related to the economic downturn have shown significant gains in the past year, according to comScore.
The most notable increases were searches relating to the declining job market, including searches using the term "unemployment" (up 206 percent to 8.2 million searches) and "unemployment benefits" (up 247 percent to 748,000 searches).
A Look At Search Behavior At SMX West
How people search and interact with search engines was the subject of the session "Just Behave, A look At Searcher Behavior."
(Coverage of SMX West continues at Murdok Videos. Keep an eye on Murdok for more notes and videos from the event this week.)
Social Networking: Examining User Behavior
Results from a recent iProspect study outline the specific behaviors of users visiting the most popular social networking sites. Among other items, the study finds that marketers should spend more time and resources investing in sites that operate within a relevant niche to their product than they have in the past.
Measuring Visitor Engagement and Behavior
Are you Measuring Visitor Engagement and Behavior?
China, Internet Behavior, and Censorship
Attending a press conference for the Canadian Internet Project – a partner of the World Internet Project – a couple of months ago, I was struck by some of the survey data on citizen attitudes and orientations towards Internet use around the world.
Perception Persuasion Behavior: PR at Work
Managers – the business, non-profit and association sort – really need to get this down pat if they are to meet their managerial objectives.
Monsters in Meetings – How to Manage Unproductive Behavior
It happens easily. You’re conducting a meeting and suddenly a small side meeting starts. Then someone introduces an unrelated issue. Someone else ridicules the new issue. Everyone laughs, except the person who mentioned the idea. Then someone insults the person who told the joke. Two people stand up and walk out. Others complain that the meeting is a waste of time.
FundsXpress and Coremetrics Provide Detailed Analysis of Consumer Behavior Helps Banks
FundsXpress, a provider of Internet-based financial services, and Coremetrics, a provider of hosted Web analytics and precision marketing solutions, announced a partnership to integrate detailed analysis of consumer behavior with online banking, bill pay, and other key channel solutions for financial institutions.
Amazon & Behavior – Predictive Targeting
New Scientist is reporting on patents filed by Amazon on March 8th that will (do?) allow the online retail giant to extract keywords …
SES: Search Behavior
I love looking at the various surveys and studies that float around in the search space. So you can imagine the drool running down my chin, at the thought of the “Search Behavior” session.