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Facebook Takes "Most Visited Website Of The Year" Title From Google

2:40PM December 30, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

According to data collected by information gathering service Hitwise, Facebook was this year’s most visited website. Of course, that is only if you count each Google property separately: More »


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Poor People Use Yahoo, Richies Use Google

11:00AM February 17, 2008 | Mark Wilson

Hey, don’t kill the messenger. But online marketing firm Hitwise has published a socioeconomic demographic rundown of Yahoo and Google users. And, without giving too much away, you might not want to tell your friends that you still use Yahoo (or that your Armani suit is a knock off).

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Xbox 360 Passes Wii as Most Googled Console, May Turn Sales Around?

4:50AM July 31, 2007 | Seamus Byrne

As of a couple days ago, the Xbox 360 has officially passed up the Wii as the most searched for console (in internet searches) since early November of last year. This wasn’t due to the Wii interest dropping lately (it’s been more or less constant since January 2007), but more because of a gradually growing interest in the 360 since April. More »