MySpace Gaining Ground Accounting for 2.53% of Visits to Shopping Sites
"MySpace and other social networks are prime targets for online retailers to take aim at in order to drive more traffic and increase their sales." - OMAnalyst
"Social networks, with their inherent behavior-twist could prove extremely beneficial to online retailers, as opposed to general search engine traffic. This is an option that retailers should not pass up." - OMAnalyst
NEW YORK, NY - August 31, 2006 - Hitwise, the world's leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that Google was the top U.S. search engine responsible for 14.93 percent of U.S. upstream 1 visits to the Shopping and Classifieds category for the week ending August 26, 2006. Yahoo! Search was the second most popular search engine sending visits to Shopping & Classifieds websites, accounting for 4.69 percent of upstream visits for that week. MSN Search rounded out the top search engines accounting for 2.33 percent of visits to the category. Full Article
