Usage Trends for Late 2009
December 25, 2009
I receive an email from ClickZ every week. On December 21, 2009, the email pointed me to the “Most visited Web Site and Most Search Term in 2009?” I assumed that the terms were the sanitized lists that proliferate at year’s end. I did focus on the following table from the Web page with the helpful name 3635954:
Several observations came to my addled goose brain.
First, MySpace.com under the stewardship of ace monetizer Rupert Murdoch seems to have lost the map to King Midas’ treasure room. The site dropped a couple of spots in the midst of a boom in social network usage. Facebook.com, like a field runner with stamina for the long race, moved to the number three spot. MySpace.com, if these data are accurate, may have to rethink its approach or the service will follow in the footsteps of Web sites that had oomph once and then lost when challenged.
Second, the Google is number one. No big surprise to me. What is interesting is that YouTube.com has moved from the tenth spot to number six. When combined, Mr. Google seems to be doing quite well in the traffic department. That’s in sharp contrast to both Microsoft and Yahoo. Despite the hype, Microsoft and Yahoo have not made significant inroads in the all-important Web search sector. It is encouraging that Yahoo Mail holds down the number two spot, but more is going to be needed in 2010.
Finally. Poor eBay.com. Looks like the company continues to flounder. Has Amazon figured out how to hobble eBay or is eBay just a victim of digital arteriosclerosis?
Interesting table at lunch with the goslings today (December 24, 2009). We don’t do holidays. Honk.
Stephen E. Arnold, December 25, 2009
Oyez, oyez, a freebie. I have to report this to the Legal Services Corporation. Those legal types don’t take holidays when there are billable hours to be had. Oops. This is a quasi-governmental outfit. Holiday! Sorry. I will report after the 25th of December. Silly goose that I am. I thought humans worked on the 25th of December.
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