Tag archive: Jack Flanagan

The comScore figures for Web searches in January reveal no major surprises. It’s an election year, so politics dominates the scene everywhere, it’s early in the year, so people are thinking of taxes. And with the bottom dropping out of the housing market, it’s no wonder that real estate figures high in the numbers.   According to Vnunet, the tax category jumped 202% during January, with the IRS the big winner. In… Read More

Traffic at the formerly exclusive social networking site Facebook has taken off in the months after its decision to open itself to the public. Since the site’s September 2006 decision to open registration, the number of unique visitors to the site has doubled according to comScore, a provider of Web demographics. Prior to September, Facebook was the domain only of college students, due to a registration process that… Read More

If anything's gonna make MySpace uncool among today's youth, this might be it: according to new market research from comScore Media Metrix, leading social networking sites can attract users of very different age demographics—and over half the visitors to social networking juggernaut MySpace.com are now over 35 years of age! “While the top social networking sites are typically viewed as directly competing with one… Read More