While it's no longer quite so fashionable to label your Internet startup a "Web 2.0" company these days, the popularity of the term remains extraordinarily...

Google’s Ad Planner is less a competitive intelligence tool and more a tool that gives fantastic insights into understanding behavior of visitors to your website in...

Back in June, when Google announced Google Trends For Websites and Google Ad Planner, I wrote a post comparing Google's data to comScore's data and concluded that Google...

Welcome to episode #117 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. With a handful of audio comments in cue, I ditched them all to talk more about this space,...

Which map above is a better representation of regional interest in TechCrunch?Before you answer that, first some background. Some blogs are putting up posts today based...

Google Trends is useful if you want to compare the popularity of two or more search terms, but it can't generate lists with popular search terms from a category, like in...

It seems that Google opened up a supercharged variant of Google Trends over the last week or two: Google Insights for Search. One useful feature the new service offers...

Here is the digital version of my twice monthly column, New Business - Six Pixels of Separation, for the Montreal Gazette. The good news is that it will also appear in...

This is the traffic chart of labnol.org for the past 12 months according to Google Trends. The x-axis is time while the y-axis represent the count of ‘daily unique...

If you are on the web, or do Web Analysis, it is a real crime if you don’t tap into the reams and reams of competitive intelligence data that is available online. It is...

Cuil, the Google killer which probably won't actually kill Google, has at least managed to spit in the face of the search giant through one of Google's own services. ...

In an effort to gain visibility in a world of information overload, the media invented the "ALERT". However, there seems to be no consensus as to what an...

I made this graph by aggregating data from Google Trends for about 150 domains, including the Alexa Top 100. The lines are colored according to the slope - red when...

This article was originally published on techcrunch and is being re-published here with permission. The apparent spam attacks on Google continue. Among the top results...

Analysts predict nearly 5 million iPhone sales this quarter, and the Wall St Journal reports that the iPhone Apps Store averages a million dollars a day in sales. But the...

Sized at an estimated $5.6 billion in 2007, Japan boasts one of the biggest online advertising markets in the world – a huge potential just waiting to be tapped by...

Search engine marketers are very aware that Google has always been protective of its data and functionality, and concerned about website publishers using that information...

You can say what you like about Alexa, vs Compete, vs Google Trends, vs ComScore, vs Netratings. I still love Alexa and I still love this chart :)Netlog remains a...

Alexa is becoming a joke lately. Some people claim that over the previous two years it was already losing reliability, but lately it went completely nuts. Whatever they...

Recently, Google launched Google Insights. Like with Google Trends, you can just type in a search term to see search volume patterns over time, as well as the top...