Internet Usage - Nelsonecom's Netbits

Another Human-Powered Search Engine Hits the Streets

ubExact launched its “direct navigation, action-based search engine” in beta. The human-edited search engine categorizes content into actions: See It (reference), Do It (entertain), Shop It (buy), and Find It (navigate). The idea is to enable searchers to...

Most Use ‘Net at Work, 50% Check Work Email on Weekends

Internet Usage

Fully 72 percent of employed adults in the US use the internet and email at least sometimes while they are at work, and 50 percent of those email users say they check their email on weekends, according to a report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet &...

Online Behavior Changed by Financial Worries

Netbits, Search, Tips

Brands that fail to embrace and engage in online consumer dialog are set be among those most severely affected by an economic downturn, according to research conducted in the UK by E-consultancy, Logan Tod and immediate future (via Retailer Daily). Some 64 percent of...

Google Gleans 71% of US Searches in August

Search

Google accounted for 71.01 percent of all US searches in the four weeks ended August 28 – the most ever, and 11 percent more than its share in August 2007, Hitwise announced. Yahoo Search, MSN Search and Ask.com received, respectively, 18.26 percent, 5.32...

Concerns Grow Over Social Networking

Digital Marketing, Internet Security, Technology

According to research conducted by FaceTime Communications, 60 percent of IT managers are more concerned about the use of social networking in the enterprise than are concerned with e-mail use. Nearly one-third of those surveyed are in organizations that have policies...

Yahoo Snatches Techie Paid-Search Share from Google

Digital Marketing, Search

For the first time in two years, Yahoo has grown the percentage of spend from major tech advertisers in North America and Asia-Pacific (APAC) at the expense of Google, according to Covario’s Q2 2008 Global Search Spend Analysis series – via...