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Internet World Stats Blog
July 1 - December 31, 2004
Microsoft Search Launched a New
Wiki
(December 23 2004) -- Check out the new MSN Search Wiki launched today by
Microsoft to gather feedback and gauge reactions to their new MSN
search and MSN desktop search. According to the Wiki, the obvious
competitors of MSN Search are the following:
Google
Yahoo
A9
Ask Jeeves
Gigablast
Go to the Wiki, when I visited they
had 26,044 guests online! Check the Wiki here.
DSL Broadband Report for Q3 2004
(December 20 2004) -- The More than half a million people each week are
choosing DSL around the world. DSL - the world's most popular
broadband technology - added another 24 million subscribers in
the first nine months of 2004, according to the latest data
produced for the DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic. There
are now 85.3 million subscribers - a growth of more than 39% so
far in 2004. See the new DSL stats page.
$4 Billion Spent by Advertisers in SEM
During 2004
(December 14 2004) -- The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization
(SEMPO) announced the release of a research paper, "The State of
Search Engine Marketing 2004," which found that advertisers in
North America (US and CA) spent $4.087 billion dollars in 2004 on
search marketing programs.
The report breaks down advertiser spending for 2004 in several
areas: $3.1 billion to search media companies; $618 million on
SEM-related in-house expenses within advertising corporations;
$380 million to search engine marketing agencies, and $30 million
in SEM technology licensing fees.
SEMPO predicts that advertisers will spend on average an
additional 39 percent in 2005 on their combined SEM compared to
2004. More information on the survey can be found at the
SEMPO website.
SEMPO
New Kid in the Blog Street
(December 7 2004) -- Blogs, which often provide commentary on content found
elsewhere on the Web and provide links to it, are important to
monitor as well. A fairly new site, Technorati, enables you
to type in your company's Web site or product Web site, or that
of your competitors, and see in real time what everybody's saying
about your or your competitor's site. Not only will this show you
who's linking, but also when the links went live.
Technorati
Two New Search Engine Optimizing Tools
at IWS
(December 3, 2004) -- Our
readers suggested adding the following free tools to the website
SEO section. Try them out and give us your feedback or
review:
PR SEARCH
As you can guess from the name, this site features Page Rank
Search, Link Popularity Checker, Google Position Search, Yahoo
Position Search, and W@P Position Search. Try it out at:
http://www.prsearch.net/
MultiOS Browser
Test web browsers with MultiOS Browser. Tests available in
German and English. Here you will find capabilities to test your
browser for conformance of web standards. Test CSS1/CSS2,
Document Object Model, Graphic Sizes, iFrames, JavaScript, SVG,
XHTML, XML and XSLT. A Listing with browsers and suitable
operating systems (AmigaOS, BeOS, Linux, MacOS, OS/2, Solaris,
Unix, Windows) may be found. Test browsers with noscript or
noframes or no-css support, see also all pages as most currently
web browsers. Try it out using yout preferred browsers at:
MultiOS Browser
The Internet Activity
Index
(November 18, 2004) -- The
Online Publishers Association (OPA) today released the Internet
Activity Index (IAI) for October 2004. The Index divides and
tracks Internet usage among four distinct activities - Content,
Communications, Commerce and Search - and was produced in
conjunction with Nielsen//NetRatings. It is published monthly by
the OPA. The October 2004 data revealed that Content held its
position as the leading online activity as measured by share of
time spent online.
In October, 40.2% of time spent online was spent on Content,
followed by Communications at 39.8%, Commerce at 15.8% and Search
at 4.3%. Commerce and Search were the only two categories to
register increases in share of time spent in October 2004 versus
September 2004, from 15.2% to 15.8% and from 4.0% to 4.3%,
respectively.
IAI -
October,2004
The New MSN Search
Engine
(November 12 2004) Microsoft
is committed to improving your search experience. They offer to
make it easier and faster to find the information you need, and
help you make the most of the time you spend online with their
NEW MSN Search Engine.
Overture has been a strategic partner of MSN since 2001, and
this distribution relationship with Microsoft in the United
States and internationally has been extended through June 2006.
This means Microsoft's advertising program is still under
development. Below is the link to the new MSN SE, give it a
try.
Test drive the MSN Search
here
Internet
Users are Now 812 Million
(October 5 2004) - As of September 30, 2004 the number of Internet
users in our stats equal 812,931,592, a new record figure. The
average penetration rate is now 12.7 %. This means that about 13
out of every 100 persons use the Internet in the
world.
Asia continues to lead in the
number of surfers with 257,898,314 people, equivalent to 31.7% of
the world total. Europe comes next with 230,886,424 surfers,
28.4% of the total. Northern America is third with 222,165,659
Internet users, a 27.3% of the total.
The remaining 12.6% is
represented by 55,930,974 users in Latin America, plus 17,325,900
users in the Middle East, 15,787,221 users in Oceania, and
12,937,100 surfers in Africa.
Internet growth to date since
the year 2000 has been 125.2%, or about 25% per year. At this
rate, Internet will hit one billion users in 2005.
details here
The New
Internet Activity Index (IAI)
(August 26 2004) - The Online
Publishers Association (OPA) announced today the launch of the
Internet Activity Index (IAI), a new way of looking at consumer
engagement online developed in connection with
Nielsen//NetRatings.
The IAI divides Internet usage
into four distinct activities: Content, Communications, Commerce
and Search. By tracking share of time spent on each activity on a
monthly basis, the Index provides a benchmark for charting the
relative impact of changing market dynamics on these segments as
the Internet continues to evolve.
"Since its initial use
primarily as a communications medium, the Internet has evolved
into a platform that supports many types of activities and many
different business models," said Michael Zimbalist, president of
the Online Publishers Association. "It will be fascinating to
track macro-level shifts in online activity through the IAI and
gain a greater understanding of the level of engagement online
consumers have with respect to each of these key
segments."
To read the complete story
(Press Release) and to see the full Internet Activity Index,
visit the Online Publishers Association
Website.
OPA website here
US
Online Retail Sales Growing Strong, Estimated over 300 Billion
Dollars by 2010
(August 14 2004) - US online
retail sales are on a strong growth track, and will likely hit
316 billion dollars by 2010, a technology research firm
said.
Forrester Research pegged US
online sales at some 144 billion dollars this year, and sees a 14
percent annual growth rate that would bring the Internet sector
to some 12 percent of all US retail sales, from less than two
percent currently.
Surveys on online spending
vary greatly, with differing definitions of the holiday season
and online purchases. Government figures, for example, exclude
travel bookings and some other services online.
US government data showed 2003
online sales at 54.9 billion dollars, representing about 1.6
percent of all retail sales last year.
By Forrester's calculation,
online retail sales will make up seven percent of the total for
the United States in 2004.
Forrester said it sees travel
as one of the biggest categories, growing to some 119 billion
dollars by 2010, to be followed by home products (43 billion),
and apparel (28 billion).
See
details here
Broadband to pass 50% in United States in July
2004
(July 19 2004) Overall, in
July 2004 broadband penetration will pass 50% among active
Internet users in the U.S. Hawaii has the highest broadband
penetration in the US, while the Southeast and the Rocky Mountain
states have the lowest residential broadband penetration.
See details here
Solid Growth in the
Satellite and Broadband Wireless Sectors
(July 7 2004) The
communications and technology market researcher's 2004 Global
Broadband Subscriber Report indicates that satellite will capture
slightly more than 12 million subscribers by 2008, still only 4
percent of total 2008 market share.
Broadband wireless will start from the same 2.3 million
subscriber plateau as satellite, but will grow faster to achieve
8 percent of the broadband marketplace by 2008, driven by strong
growth in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe.
Cable modem service is projected to trail DSL (Digital
Subscriber Line)globally, but maintain its lead in the North
American marketplace, according to the report. The cable modem
market will grow from 34 million, as of yearend 2003, to almost
75 million in 2008.
See details here
This page features Internet Usage Statistics, Search Engine
and Broad Band News from July to December/2004. To read the
other historic Blog (since January/2006), please
click here. These old Web Logs have been replaced by
Internet Stats Today
which reports on Updates to the Internet
statistics and other content of this website.
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