Top Search Terms In US For The Year 2006

Top Search Terms Among All Categories

Rank Search Term Share

1 myspace 0.63%

2 myspace.com 0.41%

3 ebay 0.33%

4 yahoo 0.23%

5 mapquest 0.21%

6 www.myspace.com 0.18%

7 yahoo.com 0.15%

8 my space 0.14%

9 myspace layouts 0.14%

10 lyrics 0.09%

Top Search Terms Among Entertainment – Movie Category Websites

Rank Search Term Share

1 imdb 0.96%

2 netflix 0.93%

3 movies 0.76%

4 blockbuster 0.56%

5 fandango 0.37%

6 harry potter 0.24%

7 netflix.com 0.23%

8 movie times 0.23%

9 hollywood video 0.21%

10 regal cinemas 0.18%

Top Search Terms Among Sports Category Websites

Rank Search Term Share

1 espn 1.37%

2 nascar 0.66%

3 espn.com 0.64%

4 nfl 0.62%

5 nfl.com 0.59%

6 nascar.com 0.50%

7 cabelas 0.45%

8 fantasy football 0.37%

9 nba 0.35%

10 mlb 0.31%

Source: Hitwise

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Blogomania

100,000 new blogs are created each day, according to blog tracker Technorati, which estimates 1.3 million posts are added daily.

4,000 is the number of blogs in the blogging elite, which have at least 500 other blogs linking to them. (Source: Time Magazine)

Microsoft Farms

1,400,000 is the size in square feet of data senters Microsoft is building on farmland near Quincy, Wash. Equivalent to ten Costcos, the "server farms" are a part of Microsoft's strategy to exploit the booming market of web-based software and services – but the heavy spending has spooked investors and sent Microsoft shares tumbling. (SOURCE: Fortune Magazine)

You’ve got mail

Email messages that will be sent in 2006: 84 billion per day

Number that will be spam messages: 33 billions per day

Size of business e-mail volumes that will be sent worldwide in 2006: More than3.5 billion gigabytes

Increase in volume since 2003: More than double

(Source: Worldwide Email Usage 2005-2009 Forecast: Email's Future Depnds on Keeping Its Value High and Its Cost Low, IDC, Framingham, Mass., USA.)