Google dropped a few percentage points while Bing and Yahoo each gained a couple … but the bigger statistic from comScore’s monthly U.S. search rankings for March is that desktop search activity reached an all-time high.
With Hurricane Sandy ravaging the East Coast, and the Obama-Romney election dominating national news attention, weather- and political-related websites saw big gains in traffic during October. That’s according to comScore’s Top 50 U.S. web properties list for the month.
Black Friday Sales Top $1 Billion As Web Prepares For Even Bigger Cyber Monday Shopping Surge
This weekend comScore reported that for the first time Black Friday online sales topped $1 billion. The expectation is that today, the awkwardly named “Cyber Monday,” will see potential online sales exceeding Friday’s totals, perhaps reaching $1.5 billion as Americans throw off the shackles of austerity that have limited holiday spending over the past few years.
Pinterest has finally cracked comScore’s monthly list of the top 50 web properties in the U.S.
Source: marketingland.com
Sadly, Yahoo experienced another month of decline — to its lowest market share in memory.
Source: searchengineland.com
Amazon, The King Of Mobile Retail
New data released by comScore shows that in the US “4 out of 5″ smartphone owners are visiting retail sites on their mobile devices. The total number of mobile-retail visitors was 85.9 million according to the measurement firm. Amazon was the leading retail destination with an audience of almost 50 million smartphone owners.
This makes perfect sense given the strength of Amazon’s brand and the early investments the company made in mobile and tablet app development. It is the site most often used in stores to check prices and product reviews. It is also the so-called “m-commerce” leader in the US.
Source: marketingland.com
According to comScore, Tumblr traffic has doubled in the past year. And did you know that Tumblr blogs rank extremely well in Google, too?
Source: marketingland.com
