Men shall continue to outnumber women in terms of Internet usage in the United Kingdom, though the gap is closing in gradually. Here is a projection of the gender distribution among Internet users in England. 2008 Men : 51.1% Women : 48.9% 2009 Men : 51.1% Women : 48.9% 2010 Men : 51% Women : [...]

Yahoo’s search engine market share in the United Kingdom has reached an all time low, also dipping its search ad revenues in the process. Google seems to be the alternate that the consumers are moving to. Google’s market share in Q4 2007 : 82.6% Google’s market share in Q4 2008 : 88.2% Yahoo’s market share [...]

In November 2007, the number of games downloaded on to mobile phones stood at 7.22 million. In the past year, this number has grown by 17% to 8.463 million by November 2008. The impetus to this growth has been provided by the Smartphone segment, mainly Blackberry Curve and iPhones. 32.4 percent of iPhone users downloaded [...]

Click fraud (False clicking on internet ads to increase click throughs) has grown consistently in the past year. Click fraud in Q4 2007 was 16.6% Overall Industry Click fraud rate in Q4 2008 : 17.1% Click fraud rate in PPC ads on Content networks like Adsense : 28.2% Percent of click fraud that is from [...]

Web 2.0 is all about user generated content. Now, this phenomenon is likely to push more than half of the American internet users into contributing content online. Here is a year-wise projection of the percent of American Internet users who shall be contributing to UGC: 2008 : 42.8% 2009 : 44.6% 2010 : 46.4% 2011 [...]

From a recent survey, American doctors are found to be avid consumers of online videos and use social networks in their niche. 60 percent of US doctors have visited social networks meant for physicians like Sermo and Medscape. 83 percent of US doctors view online videos as compared to 34 percent among all American adults.

Twitter is now among the top 300 most popular websites thanks to its phenomenal growth rate in 2008. Twitter Alexa ranking in Jan 2008 : 2953 Twitter Alexa ranking in Jan 2009 : 291 Growth rate of traffic in 2008 : 974 percent Average time spent by a user on Twitter is now half hour [...]

Here is the Forbes’ Top ten list of the American cities with the most internet connectivity: 1. Seattle 2. Atlanta 3. Washington DC 4. Orlando 5. Boston 6. Miami 7. Minneapolis 8. Denver 9. New York 10. Baltimore

In June 2008, Facebook equalled MySpace in the number of unique visitors. In just six months, here is how the popularity stands for the month of December: Unique Visitors: Facebook : 220 million MySpace : 125 million Pageviews: Facebook : 80 billion MySpace : 43 billion

Internet population worldwide reached a landmark 1 billion figure this week. Here is the top fifteen nations in terms of the number of Internet users: 1. China 2. United States 3. Japan 4. Germany 5. UK 6. France 7. India 8. Russia 9. Brazil 10. South Korea 11. Canada 12. Italy 13. Spain 14. Mexico [...]