Top 10 Video websites, based on market share of UK Internet visits to a Hitwise custom category of Video websites, February 2009: 1. YouTube: 62.9% 2. BBC iPlayer: 11.2% 3. Google Video: 2.0% 4. MegaVideo: 1.5% 5. MSN Video: 1.4% 6. Google Video UK: 1.3% 7. Channel 4 TV: 1.3% 8. MetaCafe: 1.2% 9. Vuze: [...]
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Little boots – music, videos, fun times
Posted by admin on March 21, 2009 0 comments
I came across Little Boots a few weeks ago and am slightly addicted to her music, especially “meddle” and her remakes of recent classics – check her out she is so fresh and has a great style and voice is addictive. Check out just a few video’s Meddle on Later Jules Holland Every little earthquake [...]
Google maps – street view London
Posted by admin on March 19, 2009 0 comments
So Google released another cool tool today – its called street view, basically its a street by street guide in your local town or city nearby. Google have offered this over in the states for months now and have finally introduced a London feature, I checked this out today and worked spot on, a few [...]
Search Engines stats in the UK last 6 months
Posted by admin on March 19, 2009 0 comments
After reviewing all sorts of internet stats I thought I would assess search engines market share and stats used in the UK over the last six months. Google 90.21 Yahoo! 4.21 AOL 1.74 MSN 1.34 Windows Live 1.33 Ask Jeeves 1.03 AltaVista 0.08 Source: StatCounter Global Stats As you would expect Google has the majority [...]
Google market share
Posted by admin on March 16, 2009 1 comment
Following my previous post on market share I thought it was only right to dive deeper into the Google market dominance. 1. Google 68.32% 2. Gmail 9.79% 3. YouTube 9.27% 4. Google image search 5.76% 5. Google Maps 2.20% Google search has 68.32% as you can imagine this would push all TLD’s together, would no [...]
Mobile browser wars
Posted by admin on March 12, 2009 0 comments
My favourite new web stat site statcounter have released their latest mobile browser figures. It is interesting to see that the iphone worldwide has exploded and taken over from other favourite Opera which had the market until the Apple release. The stats also show how the Ipod Touch browser is also 4th most popular browser [...]
Yahoo! mail get a 3rd of all Yahoo! traffic
Posted by admin on March 12, 2009 0 comments
Thanks to the good folk at Hitwise they released figures about Yahoo! and their traffic. Now as an internet geek and SEO its interesting to see where their traffic goes to, as Yahoo is basically a portal to their services and external services. Here are the top 3 – 1. Yahoo! Mail 36.71% 2. Yahoo! [...]
UFC daily update
Posted by admin on March 11, 2009 0 comments
A quick round up of the most important UFC news today. Lightweights Josh Neer and Kurt Pellegrino are due to fight at UFC Fight Night 19 on August 5th, it is not completely official but very close. Light heavyweight champ Rashad Evans has now his second main card fight against “The Dragon” Lyoto Machida, this [...]
Browsers in Europe
Posted by admin on March 10, 2009 0 comments
Web browsers used to be just Internet explorer and a few on Firefox. For the geeks within us, Firefox has been the web weapon of choice. The market share until recently used to be 80% internet explorer, 15% Firefox and then 5% other. Now it appears fresh from StatCounter that firefox has catching up, currently [...]