A new report from Hitwise is here, and the short version is as follows: Google wins. The long version includes a few other things of interest, though, including a small gain on Ask’s part.
Hitwise Launches Retail Data Center to Public
Hitwise, announced the launch of its new Retail Data Center. This publicly available website provides weekly online shopping trend data, based on how U.S. Internet users interact with more than 20,000 online shopping sites, across 21 shopping categories such as Video Games, Electronics and Apparel.
Hitwise Examines Search Share Of Gadgets
Hitwise has released search data that takes a look at what will be the most popular consumer electronics for the upcoming holiday season.
Hitwise To Scrutinize Election 2008
If you are a serious political junkie, then life just got a little better, as Hitwise has launched a new Election 2008 Data Center that offers online usage data about the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
Hitwise Sells For $240 Million
Experian has announced that it has purchased Hitwise for $240 million. With the purchase Experian hopes to offer their clients more value by leveraging the data Hitwise collects from Web sites and online consumers.
Hitwise was founded in 1998 and has over 1,200 clients in numerous areas such as financial services, media, travel and retail.
Hitwise: Where Did You Fill Out Your Brackets?
March Madness begins today and already the tournament action is in full swing with enough opening round games to satisfy even the most ravenous of college basketball appetites.
Hitwise Analyzes Online Calendars
LeAnn Prescott from Hitwise has an analysis of online calendars that has been getting a fair bit of traffic and commentary, since it shows that Google’s calendar – which has only been around for about six months – is growing strongly in “market share of Internet visits” (as Hitwise describes their proprietary measurement of traffic).
Google Vs. Google, According To Hitwise
Hitwise’s Bill Tancer conducted a detailed analysis of “Google properties and how they rank amongst themselves in market share of visits,” and while the results aren’t necessarily shocking, they are interesting. Google’s main search engine is the far-and-away leader of the pack, with a 78.42% share.
Yahoo! Gets Snippy About Hitwise Report
Yahoo! wasn’t at all happy with Hitwise’s announcement that MySpace.com had surpassed Yahoo! as most-visited site on the Web. In fact, they were downright indignant.
Hitwise Scopes Out The Competition
Want to know why your competitor’s website is so successful? Hitwise unveiled a service today that gives clients a glimpse into what your nemesis is doing right. Called Hitwise Conversions, the data reporting service outlines how online users navigate within specific sections of competitive websites.