| Social Networking Visits Increase 11.5 Percent From January To February |
iMeem and Bebo are the Fastest Movers
Hitwise announced the market share of Internet visits to the top 20 social networking websites grew by 11.5 percent from January to February 2007, to account for 6.5 percent of all Internet visits in February 2007.
Websites that showed the largest increases in market share of visits were Buzznet, up 148.4 percent and iMeem, up 145.7 percent from January to February 2007. Other fast growing websites included Hoverspot (up 19.6 percent) and Bebo (up 17.8 percent). Category leaders MySpace and Facebook also grew from January to February, with visits increasing 10.2 and 9.1 percent respectively.
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| Search Term Analysis - “tax” |
Hitwise Search Intelligence™ data revealed the top 10 search terms from the complete list of 19,760 search terms containing the term "tax" for the 4 weeks ending March 10, 2007. The results are ordered based on the volume of searches.
The second table below is a list of the top 10 websites from the complete list of 32 websites that received traffic from the search term "tax" for the 4 weeks ending March 10, 2007. The results are ordered based on the volume of searches.
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turbo tax |
5.33 |
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tax act |
0.97 |
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tax forms |
0.93 |
| 4. |
irs tax forms |
0.70 |
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federal tax forms |
0.55 |
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free tax filing |
0.38 |
| 7. |
franchise tax board |
0.32 |
| 8. |
tax |
0.31 |
| 9. |
turbo tax online |
0.31 |
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federal income tax |
0.26 |
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Internal Revenue Service |
www.irs.gov |
20.31 |
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TurboTax |
turbotax.intuit.com |
20.17 |
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H&R Block |
www.hrblock.com |
6.86 |
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TaxACT Online |
www.taxactonline.com |
6.72 |
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TaxSites.com |
www.taxsites.com |
3.36 |
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MySpace |
www.myspace.com |
3.36 |
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Free Tax USA |
www.freetaxusa.com |
3.36 |
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TaxAct |
www.taxact.com |
3.36 |
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TurboTax- Web |
turbotaxweb.intuit.com |
3.36 |
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ExpressTaxRefund.com |
www.expresstaxrefund.com |
<3.36 |
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| NCAA Sports - www.ncaasports.com |
Rank week ending - March 10, 2007 - 1,227
Rank week ending - March 3, 2007 - 2,021
Positions jumped - 794
With March Madness taking place this month, it is no surprise the rank of www.ncaasports.com, the website dedicated to sports coverage for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, has moved up 794 positions among all websites visited by U.S. Internet users for the week ending March 10, 2007. The majority of visitors to this website are male (56 percent), aged 35-44 (28 percent). Furthermore, the website has increased its market share of visits by 39% percent for that week.
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| Business and Finance—Banks and Financial Institutions |
This category features both banks and NBFIs, including all companies which offer banking, finance, leasing and loans. The information below is based on All sites » Weekly rankings for the week ending 03/17/2007 » Ranks by 'Visits'.
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| 99.3% |
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of traffic to this category was directed at domestic sites.
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Business and Finance |
56.97% |
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Banks and Financial Institutions |
52.41% |
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Computers and Internet |
24.84% |
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Email Services |
7.98% |
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Search Engines |
7.21% |
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Portal Frontpages |
5.76% |
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Shopping and Classifieds |
3.84% |
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Net Communities and Chat |
3.02% |
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Entertainment |
2.66% |
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Stocks and Shares |
1.55% |
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Business and Finance |
65.14% |
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Banks and Financial Institutions |
60.28% |
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Computers and Internet |
13.32% |
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Shopping and Classifieds |
3.94% |
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Portal Frontpages |
3.62% |
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Email Services |
3.58% |
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Search Engines |
2.79% |
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Entertainment |
2.70% |
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Net Communities and Chat |
2.32% |
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News and Media |
1.41% |
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| Analyst Weblogs: Google Base and Real Estate |
March 8, 2007 - Bill Tancer
John Battelle's post here alerted me to Google's push in the real estate space. As a search engine, Google plays a dominant role as the #1 source of traffic to the Hitwise U.S. Real Estate category (1,825 sites), providing close to 16% of all traffic to the category (up from 13% a year ago). This chart shows the growth of visits from Google's main search page to the real estate category.
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