Stats: Hitwise
Report: Nearly 60 percent of searches now from mobile devices
Hitwise examined hundreds of millions of queries across 11 key categories....
Report: Search Engines Responsible For 40% Of Holiday Traffic To Retailer Websites
As part of its Consumer Insights webinar last week, marketing services firm Experian revealed search engines were responsible for driving more...
These Five Websites Captured 20% Of All Search Result Clicks
Once in every five times that someone clicks a search result, it goes to one of five websites: Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo, Wikipedia or Amazon....
Facebook Still Top Search Term In 2012 As One-Word Searches Rise 16 Percent [Experian]
For the fourth straight year, “facebook” was the most common search term in the U.S. this year — part of an increase in...
Study: Google Search Share Slips Below 90% In The UK In October
Only 89.33% of internet searches in the UK were conducted on Google sites last month, according to Experian Hitwise. It’s the first time...
Bing-hoo Search Down 4 Percent In Past Year, Hitwise Says
June and July haven’t been very kind months for Bing and Yahoo. What Hitwise calls “Bing-powered search” had about 28.1...
Hitwise: Bing Has Chipped Away 5 Percent Of Google’s Search Share Over Past Year
Google continues to hold a death-grip on search market share in the U.S., but Experian Hitwise says that Bing has taken five percent of...
Hitwise: “Facebook” Was 4 Of Top 10 Search Queries In 2011
Following the major engines themselves, Experian Hitwise announced the top search terms of 2011. The company looked at the top 1,000 search...
Hitwise: Bing-powered Search Share Inches Up; One-Word Queries Also Rising
Bing-powered search made small gains in U.S. market share during October, according to the latest Hitwise numbers. Bing gained 3% between...
Hitwise: Google Back Above 66% US Market Share
Google has inched back above the 66% market share threshold in the latest numbers from Experian Hitwise. And both Bing and Yahoo saw slight...
One Year Later, Bing-Powered Search Takes 4% Market Share From Google – Hitwise
It’s been a year since Bing began powering the natural search results on Yahoo and the combination has gained a little more than 4% market...
Google Plus: Big With Status-Seeking Singles; Losing Ground At Colleges & Cafes
Conventional wisdom says that Google+ is big with the tech crowd and, more specifically, with males than females. But Experian Hitwise has a...
Yahoo Gains In Latest Hitwise Market Share Report; Google, Bing Down
Google and Bing both saw slight declines in search market share last month, while Yahoo gained a bit to rise back above 15%. That’s...
MapQuest Launches Local Business Listings Center
Local SEOs have another tool to add to the “citation belt,” as it were: MapQuest has announced its own Local Business Center, a...
Bing & Yahoo Pass 30% Search Engine Market Share, Hitwise Says
A strong month of March has propelled Bing-powered search past the 30% market share level for the first time since Bing began providing Yahoo...
Compete Confirms Bing Gains
Last week both comScore and Hitwise showed gains for Bing. Meanwhile Google was off 2% according to both metrics firms. Today Compete released...
YouTube, MSNBC Benefit From Quake-related Search Spikes, Hitwise Says
Search activity spiked late last week in response to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the two sites benefitting the most in terms of web...
Hitwise, comScore Show New Highs For Bing
Hitwise reported new search market-share numbers yesterday and this morning financial analysts are offering an early peak at comScore’s...
Research: Bing-Powered Engines Grew 6.5% in January
Searches on Bing-powered engines grew 6.5% in the U.S. from December to January, climbing from 25.77% of total search volume to 27.44%. Google...
US Twitter Users Spending More Time Than Ever On Twitter.com, Report Says
A new report from Experian Simmons says US-based Twitter users are spending more time on the Twitter.com website than ever before. But the...