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Top search engines before visiting travel sites
Date: 02/12/09
Keywords: web, yahoo, google
Rank Website Upstream Share 1. Google 27.09% 2. Yahoo! Search 4.99% 3. MSN Search 1.51% 4. Ask.com 0.61% 5. Windows Live Search 0.37% 6. Google Image Search 0.36% 7. My Web Search 0.23% 8....
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=15491
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Solar Day. Whose bright idea?
Date: 02/11/09
Keywords: web
John Reed would like to be remembered as the guy who started Solar Day. It's happening on the first day of summer. That would be June 21, 2009. It's already got a website, of course. While Reed himself is in sunny California., wants to see...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=2244
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How to make your website really, really fast
Date: 02/09/09
Keywords: browser, web, google
Steve Souders knows how to make a website speed through a web browser. And he works at Google, one of the fastest websites around. Web performace is a two-pronged beast: efficiency and response time. Efficiency deals with the scalability challenges...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=207
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MySpace got 76% of US social network traffic in 2007
Date: 03/25/08
Keywords: web
MySpace.com averaged 76.35% of all US visits in 2007 among a custom category of 53 leading social-networking websites, followed by Facebook.com, Bebo.com and BlackPlanet.com with 12.57%, 1.24% and 0.87%, respectively, according to Hitwise. The remaining 49 social networking websites in the custom category accounted for 8.97% of US visits. by...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14238
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Network Solutions censors anti-Koran film site
Date: 03/24/08
Keywords: web
Network Solutions has blocked the Web site promoting an incendiary film by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, which presents his view that the Koran (Quran?) is "Facist," AP reports. "In this situation with the dialogue that's happening throughout the world we've made the choice to suspend the site...
Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3730
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Top 20 websites in January 2008
Date: 03/23/08
Keywords: web, yahoo, google, ebay
Rank Website Market Share 1. www.google.com 5.37% 2. mail.yahoo.com 4.91% 3. www.myspace.com 4.49% 4. www.yahoo.com 3.86% 5. mail.live.com 2.29% 6. www.ebay.com 1.91% 7. search.yahoo.com 1.68% 8. www.msn.com 1.33% 9....
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14215
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Top Web sites in February 2008
Date: 03/23/08
Keywords: yahoo, microsoft, google
Brand Audience, 000 Time Per User 1. Google 114,573 1:29:15 2. Yahoo! 112,466 3:13:56 3. Microsoft 95,877 0:43:32 4. MSN/Windows Live 95,355 2:09:30 5. AOL Media Network 89,443 3:58:22 6. YouTube 70,076 0:47:40 ...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14223
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Top Downstream Search Engines in January 2008
Date: 03/22/08
Keywords: web, yahoo, google
Rank Website Downstream Share 1. Google 2.31% 2. Yahoo! Search 0.45% 3. MSN Search 0.11% 4. Ask.com 0.11% 5. Windows Live Search 0.08% 6. My Web Search 0.06% 7. AOL Search 0.04% ...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14206
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Top Upstream Search Engines in January 2008
Date: 03/21/08
Keywords: web, yahoo, google
Rank Website Upstream Share 1. Google 4.28% 2. Yahoo! Search 1.88% 3. MSN Search 0.62% 4. Ask.com 0.19% 5. My Web Search 0.16% 6. Windows Live Search 0.16% 7. AOL Search 0.09% ...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14200
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Websites dropped out of top 100 in January 2008
Date: 03/20/08
Keywords: web
December 2007 Rank January 2008 Rank Website Domain 81 103 HSBC Credit Card Mail Offer www.hsbcapply.com 85 106 Bill Me Later www.bill-me-later.com 95 128 CountryWide loans.countrywide.com 97 102 Arvest www.arvest.com 99 104 American Funds www.americanfunds.com ...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14197
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US e-commerce sales up 29.5% in Q4 2007
Date: 03/18/08
Keywords: no keywords
The estimate of US retail e-commerce sales for Q4 2007 totaled $41.8 bln, an increase of 29.5% from Q3 2007, according to the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce. The Q4 2007 e-commerce estimate increased 18.2% from the Q4 2006; total retail sales increased 5.0% in the same period....
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14171
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You can block Craigslist, but don't touch YouTube!
Date: 03/18/08
Keywords: web
With the installation of our new content filter recently, teachers and students noticed a significant increase in blocked websites. Overall, this has been (as might be expected), well-received by faculty and generally to the chagrin of students. One site newly picked up by the filters is Craigslist, an...
Source: http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1581
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Zone-H web defacement data shows platforms don't matter
Date: 03/17/08
Keywords: web
Web defacement archive Zone-H.org has produced a comprehensive three-year report on Web Server defacements for 2005 to 2007. What makes the Zone-H archive unique is that the data is gathered from the hackers/defacers themselves and every defaced website is confirmed and mirrored on Zone-H permanently. Contrary to...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=959
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E-commerce sales for 2007 reached $136.4 bln
Date: 03/17/08
Keywords: no keywords
Total e-commerce sales for 2007 were estimated at $136.4 bln, an increase of 19.0% from 2006,according to the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce. Total retail sales in 2007 increased 4.0% from 2006. E-commerce sales in 2007 accounted for 3.4% of total sales; in 2006, e-commerce sales accounted for...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14159
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NYPhilkids.org - what an educational website should be
Date: 03/17/08
Keywords: web
I recently had the opportunity to meet one of the developers of NYPhilkids.org, a slick website devoted to musical education from the New York Philharmonic. While the site is hardly meant to replace a Juilliard education (even though the site developer just happens to have a degree from the...
Source: http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1577
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64% of Canadian teens have downloaded digital music
Date: 03/16/08
Keywords: web
64% of teens in Canada have downloaded digital music or MP3 files, according to Ipsos Reid. 30% do this often, from a few times a week to daily (compared with 7% of adults). More than 51% of teens play against people they know or complete strangers and visit gaming websites...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14151
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US retail e-commerce sales in 2007 grew 19.0
Date: 03/16/08
Keywords: no keywords
US retail e-commerce sales in 2007 were up 19.0% from 2006, whereas total retail sales were up 4.0% in the same period, according to the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce. Retail e-commerce sales in Q4 2007 (adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14153
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The 4Q 2007 e-commerce estimate was up 18.0% from 4Q 2006
Date: 03/16/08
Keywords: no keywords
The 4Q 2007 e-commerce estimate was up 18.0% from 4Q 2006. E-commerce sales in 4Q 2007 accounted for 3.5% of total sales in the quarter, according to the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce. Total retail sales for Q4 2007 were estimated at $1,030.7 bln, an increase of 0.9%...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=14149
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Google attempts to steal buzz from Microsoft WorldWideTelescope
Date: 03/14/08
Keywords: microsoft, google
We know that "Google Sky" in Google Earth is a bit of a mess -- especially when you compare it to other products like Stellarium. Even Microsoft's own World Wide Telescope (WWT) has it beat according to the lucky people who have caught a glimpse. Google...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=967
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Internet personalities: looking at three political sites
Date: 03/13/08
Keywords: no keywords
There are things I know I'm not supposed to do, but do anyway. You should never, for example, rely on your first impressions of a person, but I'm guilty of this all the time. Although my wife denies it, I do change my mind if the facts warrant and, in...
Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1091