Experian

Ask.com sees 1 percent increase

New York, N.Y., Dec. 9, 2009 - Experian Hitwise announced today that Google accounted for 71.57 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Nov. 28, 2009.

Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 15.39 percent, 9.34 percent and 2.65 percent, respectively. The remaining 52 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.07 percent of U.S. searches.

Social network search terms tops list for fourth straight year; Google top-visited Website for second straight year

New York, N.Y., Dec. 15, 2009 - Experian Hitwise has analyzed the top 300 search terms for 2009 and Facebook was the top-searched term overall.

This is the first year that the social networking Website has been the top search term overall, accounting for 0.67 percent of all searches. In fact, four variations of the term "facebook" were among the top 25 terms.

Visits to online costume retailers up 48 percent year over year; BuyCostumes.com is top visited costume Web site

New York, N.Y., Oct. 29, 2009 - The search terms "michael jackson costume" and "balloon boy costume" were the most popular among all U.S. Internet searches that contained the phrase "costume" for the four weeks ending Oct. 24, 2009, according to Experian Hitwise.

New Multi-Faceted Deal Expands to Include Multiple Digital Solutions

New York, NY, February 2, 2009 -- AOL’s Platform-A announced a multi-faceted strategic relationship with FreeCreditReport.com®, the leading provider for online consumer credit reports, scores and monitoring. The partnership will fully leverage Platform-A’s diverse slate of advertising solutions, including deep customized content integration within AOL’s properties and a variety of broad-based campaigns across Platform-A’s networks ensuring the ability to harness the full power of digital media advertising.