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Monthly Archives: January 2004
Search Technology from User Perspective
Tim Bray, the co-inventor of XML shares in detail his understanding of and hopes for search engine technologies on his On Search, the Series blog series of essays. Particularly interesting in these articles posted between June and December 2003 is … Continue reading
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Web Analytics Tools Comparison
The e-Consultancy (I am not associated with them) has created a very thorough report comparing 12 web analytics tools marketed in the UK and sorted by price range: – Webtrends (NetIQ) – RedEye – RedSheriff – Nedstat – WebtraffIQ – … Continue reading
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The Challenges of Calculating the Number of Net Users Worldwide
According to a survey by Ipsos-Insight shared by eMarketer, Canada is the county with the highest percentage of its adult population online – 71% or 16 million. The US is the biggest online user with 128 million users online or … Continue reading
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Us Online Retail To Grow By 17%, To Influence 30%
JupiterResearch forecasts that U.S. online retail sales will reach $65 billion in 2004, and will continue to grow by a compound annual growth rate of 17% through 2008 to top $117 billion. More significantly for web marketers is the projection … Continue reading
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Internet Exceeds All Other Media in Growth
The Media Audit, a Houston, TX, based company, surveyed adults in 85 US metro markets and concluded that the percentage of adults who spend at least an hour a day on the Internet is significantly greater than the percentage of … Continue reading
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The Marriage of Search Engines with Social Networking
A new website, a fusion between a search engine and a social network, is launched today under the name Eurekster. It has the financial backing of NBC, features search results provided by AllTheWeb and sponsored results by Overture, the Yahoo! … Continue reading
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FirstGov is not enough
FirstGov is not a sufficient resource for search engine marketing of a government website. Just because government websites have monopoly on .gov domain names, it does not mean they have monopoly on providing information about certain government-related subjects or locations. … Continue reading
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China’s Web Audience
Chinese Web Marketplace According to a semi-official Chinese research centre, the China Internet Network Information Centre, the number of Internet surfers in China has grown to 79.5 million people at the end of 2003, up an annual 34.5 percent. China, … Continue reading
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Survey Analyses Why Consumers Abandon Online Purchases
NetIQ just published a survey focusing on the huge cost to businesses caused by abandoned ecommerce shopping carts. The survey quotes reports by eMarketer that in 2003 some 52 percent of shopping cards were abandoned and estimates by research firm … Continue reading
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New Year, New Goals
After a couple of weeks away on paternity leave, I am resuming the WebSage blog. In 2004, you will see posted here a lot of information on current e-commerce trends, search engine marketing, web optimization, and overall ways of improving … Continue reading
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