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Google accounted for 64.35% of all US searches in the four weeks ended July 28, nearly four percentage points more than the comparable period a year earlier, according to Hitwise, MarketingCharts reports.
Also according to Hitwise:
The remaining 48 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.52% of US searches, the online research firm said.
While search engines remain the primary way for internet users to navigate to key industry categories, Google’s share of that traffic has been increasing significantly, according to Hitwise:
The Travel, News and Media, Entertainment, and Business and Finance categories received double-digit increases (comparing July 2007 to July 2006) in their share of traffic coming directly from search engines.
Katz Media Group has added another new client, Lincoln Financial Media, and will sell ad time on the company’s 15 stations beginning immediately.
Katz also added CBS Radio and Entercom last week, picking them off from Interep’s list.
Katz has also…
Time magazine ousted Cosmo as the top magazine for college students in this year’s Anderson Analytics fall survey.
Time also jumped past People, which was last year’s No. 2, writes Ad Age. A Time spokesperson said the magazine did not run…
Out-of-home companies are bracing for the recession like everyone else, but they may not feel the sting as badly as other media.
Though the third quarter brought negative growth to the nation’s three largest OOH companies - Clear Channel Outdoor,…
CNN plans to offer newspapers a wire service as an alternative to the Associated Press. CNN, which already runs an internal wire service, will explain its new, expanded service to editors from about 30 papers who are visiting Atlanta this…
Regulatory filings reveal that billionaire hedge-fund manager Carl Icahn bought nearly 7 million additional shares — about $67 million worth — of Yahoo.
The investor paid an average of $9.92 for each share over the course of three days, bringing…
Email, news gathering and paying bills continue to be the most widely used online activities among U.S. adults, but downloading TV programs, watching videos and making web phone calls posted the biggest overall growth, according to data from Mediamark Research…
