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The U.S. doesn’t even celebrate Boxing Day, but in the U.K., it’s quite a big deal; December 26th is often treated as a sort of second Christmas in terms of food-eating and gift-giving.  There are also huge sales, and Robin Goad reports that, as a result, Boxing Day was the U.K.’s busiest online shopping day [...]

Though more and more people are using search engines all the time, that doesn’t necessarily translate into more diversity in search terms. In fact, according to Hitwise, the top 5% of all search volume consists of just 9 terms.
That’s down from 49 terms in 2005, reports Hitwise UK Research Director Robin Goad, though he doesn’t [...]

If you can do so without freaking her out, look at the nearest female.  Is she dripping with electronics gear?  New rumors indicate that women are buying more of the stuff, and may actually be buying more than men.

This would mean a lot to online retailers - whether they chose to redecorate their [...]

Whether or not you think music should be given away, sold at reasonable per-download prices, or sold at whatever price the record labels want to put on them, Radiohead’s experiment in name-your-own-price marketing may be paying off. Not to mention all the publicity their getting because of it, the website visited most after Radiohead’s (in [...]

The return of Led Zeppelin is a great thing, and it’s generated a lot of search traffic.  In terms of the benefit to one company, though, an announcement related to the iPhone’s UK release did much more good.
Why “one company” out of all the people who could be connected to either event?  Simply put: [...]

By spending time on Facebook, a person might hope to find a friend, a significant other, or even a job.  I can accept that.  What’s surprising is the power the social network wields over things like candy companies and banks.
First, a refresher: we’ve covered the comeback of the Wispa candy bar.  There was also [...]