Tagged: Traffic analysis

Google Analytics is illegal, say German privacy protection officials
Google Analytics, the company's free website statistics product, has come under fire from German government officials who are attempting to place a ban on the use of the software.

EU proposal may threaten affiliate marketing, bid management and web analytics
Proposed amendments to EU directives governing privacy and electronic communications could pose a risk to the future of certain aspects of digital marketing.

Controversial xbox game Fable 2 sends Google searches soaring
The 21st of October release of hugely anticipated Fable 2, sequel to Peter Molyneux's Fable, triggered a rash of unusual queries on the search engine.

Google Trends plots Xbox Live Troubles
Xbox Live, the popular online gaming system from Microsoft, has been experiencing on-going technical issues this week and Google's Hot Trends has been catching the action in all its gory detail.

How Google Suggest will affect search
Google Suggest has officially been switched on as a default function on all searches, affecting what people search for and what they find.

Google Analytics - coming to a TV near you?
Google links it's online analytics software to offline TV advertising campaign in an attempt to improve transparency for end users.

Where do searchers go after leaving Ask UK?
Google receives more traffic from users leaving Ask UK than eBay and Microsoft sites, its two closest rivals, combined.

Ladies love Yahoo's Buzz more
comScore's Media Metrix figures for March show that Yahoo's newly launched Buzz site is doing particularly well with woman.

Google hints at new ad formats at SES New York
During a heated Orion Panel at Search Engine Strategies New York Google hinted that search engine is developing advertising options suited to Universal Search.

Upcoming holidays 'drive US web activity'
Retail sites in the US experienced growth during October as consumers began to prepare for the upcoming Christmas holiday season, new research indicates.