links for 2007-10-11

61 Billion Searches Conducted Worldwide in August

comScore study found that more than 750 million people age 15 and older – or 95 percent of the worldwide Internet audience – conducted 61 billion searches worldwide in August, an average of more than 80 searches per searcher. Holy SEO.

(tags: search research)
The truth about traffic on the Internet « Scobleizer

Interesting post from Scoble on “referring” sites.

(tags: traffic)
Facebook Traffic Tanks - This can’t be real? « GigaOM

comScore will report a 9.3% decline in Facebook’s unique visitors from 33.75 million (Aug. 2007) to 30.6 million in (Sept. 2007). I’m guessing the 9.3% showed up based on the great press coverage of Facebook, but never returned.

(tags: facebook research)

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One Response to “links for 2007-10-11”

1 Jeff Hunt 11 October 2007 @ 7:58 pm

I think that traffic to these sites will be migratory as they appear more and more commercial to the youthful visitors. I’m basing this on a solid base of research: Two teenagers in my household!