Search Trend Thursday: “Man Utd vs Man City”
We’ve taken a more sporty theme in this week’s edition of Search Trend Thursday – pitting the Manchester football clubs against each other in a “search derby”. Interestingly, both clubs garner most of their searches from Africa, with Eritrea dominating the results for Manchester United, and Zimbabwe coming…
Way Back Wednesday: YouTube.com
YouTube! We all use it – that’s a sure thing. Whether you’re using it to watch K-pop, Taylor Swift, silly cats or movie trailers, well, let’s not get into that. This week we’ve gone back to its roots, just after it hit beta in 2006,…
Way Back Wednesday: Kijiji.ca
Welcome back to another edition of Way Back Wednesday! We’ve decided this time round to inject Canadian flavour to our time travels by visiting Kijiji.ca, a Canadian classified ads listing website owned by eBay. The site should prove familiar to many Canadians and is often seen as…
Search Trend Thursday: Netflix vs LOVEFiLM
It’s Search Trend Thursday time! This week we’ve stuck to our movie theme of late but this time added a new media element into the equation through streaming sites. Both Netflix and LOVEFiLM are two of the largest movie and TV series streaming services out there…
Way Back Wednesday: Economist.com
Welcome to another edition of Way Back Wednesday! If you didn’t already know, we travel through time every Wednesday, courtesy of the Internet Archive’s Way Back Machine. This week we’ve traveled all the way back to 1996 to have a gander at The Economist and it’s digital…
Search Trend Thursday: Star Wars vs Star Trek
Welcome to another edition of Search Trend Thursday! This week we’ve summoned the geek within us (or, if you’re like myself, didn’t need to summon it) by pitting the “Stars” against each other in an epic online battle of search trendiness. Considering the release of the…
Way Back Wednesday: Wikipedia.org
Now very much ingrained in our digital lifestyle (thanks Google!) Wikipedia has become the central source for knowledge online. In this week’s edition of Way Back Wednesday, we take a quick snapshot at the great strides it’s made since Jimmy Wales launched the platform in 2001. I…
Search Trend Thursday: Liam vs Noel Gallagher
Thanks for tuning into another round of Search Trend Thursday – where we explore the web interest surrounding intriguing keywords of our choosing. This week we’ve decided to reignite a sibling rivalry of old in the form of Noel and Liam Gallagher, who many will know…
Way Back Wednesday: Myspace.com
Was Tom your first friend too? He should have been – if you were on MySpace back in the mid 2000s. Let’s inject a bit of nostalgia for those that remember MySpace, shall we? MySpace.com used to to be “the” social network between 2005-2008, and…
Search Trend Thursday: Wine vs Beer
Welcome back to another edition of Search Trend Thursday. You may have seen some of our posts already – if not, we use Google Trends to discover people’s interests on the web. This time round we’ve pitted Beer against Wine to determine which is the more popular…
