Searches frustrate surfers

Hitwise found that although both US and Australian internet surfers were finding it difficult to get results when surfing the internet, " Australians were having a marginally higher success rate with their searches than their US counterparts, but the failure rate was still...

Hitwise: MySpace Takes 3/4ths of US Social Network Traffic

Although there are competing metrics that tell different stories, it looks like Myspace is still the 800 lb gorilla of social networking in North America."According to web measurement firm Hitwise, MySpace commands 73.82% of all social networking traffic. The data comes from...

The decline and fall of email

Valleywag shows the skeptics who the real winners and losers are with Facebook's emerging dominance:"When Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook, we told you the real losers were AOL and Yahoo, because they depend on email usage to drive traffic through their portals....

Social networks' retail impact has increased by 153% in the UK since last Chr...

"The amount of UK Internet traffic online retailers receive from social networks increased by 153% between December 2006 and September 2007. This September, 3.1% of UK Internet visits to the Hitwise Shopping and Classifieds category came from a Hitwise custom category...

Google overtakes Technorati

"Ailing weblog search engine Techorati has been overtaken by Google, according to research company HitWise Inc. According to HitWise, Google's Blogsearch has seen a 168 per cent surge in traffic since Google started to promote the service more heavily in October. The research...

Google overtakes Technorati

Ailing weblog search engine Techorati has been overtaken by Google, according to research company HitWise Inc. According to HitWise, Google's Blogsearch has seen a 168 per cent surge in traffic since Google started to promote the service more heavily in October. The research...

Digg isn't the New York Times

"Mainstream media news Web sites don't have to worry about Digg.com replacing them as primary sources, unless they want to reach younger readers. LeeAnn Prescott, a senior analyst at Hitwise, reported Digg was the 101st most popular news and media Web site in the U.S. the...

Who's the king of photos? Hint: It ain't Flickr

"LeeAnn Prescott from web analysis company Hitwise has an interesting article on her blog about the market shares of the web's most popular photo sharing and hosting sites. While it's true that Flickr gets most of the buzz, it turns out it's not at the top of the heap-it's at...