According to comScore’s data, quoted at SearchEngineLand.com a few hours ago, an affiliate website (TheFind) has beaten Yahoo! Shopping “in terms of average daily users”, and 2 out of the top 4 comparison shopping engines (TheFind and Shopzilla) are active affiliates.
Here’s that data (highlighting mine):
More in the above-quoted Google Is Top Shopping Site, TheFind Passes [...]
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It looks like something is definitely cooking… I’ve logged into my Facebook account earlier this morning to find this notification:
Facebook is certainly broadening the scope of their interests, and no wonder why the area of questions and answers got their attention.
First of all there is a huge demand for this service. Remember Aardvark that grew [...]
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Having analyzed the growth of the global search market in the month of December 2009 compared to the search landscape in December 2008, comScore has registered a 46% increase in online search demand globally. The U.S. “represented the largest individual search market in the world” accounting for some 17% (or 22.7 billion searches total) [...]
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Being a linguist, I have always been fascinated by this phenomenon in the development of language(s) — when a proper name becomes a common noun (or even a verb). By definition nouns name people, places, and things. There are two classes of nouns: common and proper. Common nouns name general items, while proper nouns [...]
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Who said that past the Cyber Monday week there’s not much to fish for in the pond of holiday-oriented consumers?
Yesterday Google Retail Blog has published some staggering data: as of Sunday, December 6 2009, 64% of holiday purchases are yet left to be done. Apparently, compared to the week before Thanksgiving, the percentage has dropped [...]
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…at least to a degree (and this is good to see).
Back in May of this year when Google Suggest got links to the main/official websites added to the lists of suggested search phrases, I am pretty positive they did not have affiliate marketing in mind. The feature was certainly mainly geared towards to the end [...]
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On May 14, Google announced an adjustment to their “trademark policy in the U.S.” which has been changed “to allow some ads to use trademarks in the ad text.” The reasoning behind loosening up on trademarks was reported in light of aiming “to improve ad quality and user experience.” Just as generic newspaper ads, which [...]
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