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Government Sites Reach 40 Percent of Americans but Lag Behind Overall Internet Growth

By Guest PostSeptember 12, 2011Technologyamericans, Comscore, comscore data, department of education, gillian heltai, Google, government agencies, internal revenue service, national institutes of health, national oceanic and atmospheric administration, nih, traffic to federal government sites, usajobs

*Interest in Government Jobs Propels USAJobs.gov Alongside Commercial Career Sites*

RESTON, VA, September 12, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an analysis of traffic to federal Government sites, which showed a decline over the past year despite attempts to make the government more digital-friendly. In July 2011, 87.6 million Americans visited a government site, representing 40.7 percent of the total U.S. online population. Although today’s audience represents an 11-percent increase in visitors vs. five years ago, this number is significantly lower than the 24-percent growth in the total U.S. Internet population over the same period of time. (more…)

comScore Releases July 2011 U.S. Online Video Rankings

By Guest PostAugust 22, 2011Technologyamericans, brightroll video network, Comscore, Facebook, Google, howcast, hulu, internet users, machinima, maker studios, Microsoft, online video content, vevo, viacom digital, video metrix, YouTube, youtube partner channels

*comScore Announces Availability of New YouTube Partner Reporting*

RESTON, VA, August 22, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 180 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in July for an average of 18.5 hours per viewer. The total U.S. Internet audience engaged in a record 6.9 billion viewing sessions.

YouTube Partner Reporting Now Available in Video Metrix

comScore is now able to provide YouTube Partner Reporting within the Video Metrix offering, for a never-before-seen look at viewership across hundreds of YouTube partners and their channels. This new feature provides a comprehensive and granular view of the unique audiences within different YouTube partner channels, enabling advertisers to more-easily create and optimize campaigns across specific channels to reach desired target audiences. The July data release for YouTube Partner Reporting includes dozens of beta partners, while comScore and Google plan to initiate reporting of more partners with the release of August data. (more…)

Microsoft Announces Simple Transfer of Health Data From Google Health Service to Microsoft HealthVault

By Guest PostJuly 18, 2011TechnologyGoogle, google health, google health profile, google health service, healthvault, Microsoft, microsoft amalga, microsoft corp., microsoft health solutions group, microsoft healthvault, nate mclemore, personal health information, sentillion inc

*Google Health users can send their Google Health profile directly to a HealthVault account using Direct Project messaging protocols.*

REDMOND, Wash. — July 18, 2011 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that people using the Google Health service, scheduled to be discontinued Jan. 1, 2012, can easily transfer their personal health information stored in a Google Health profile to a Microsoft HealthVault account using the Direct Project messaging protocols established by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The Direct Project specifies a simple, scalable, standards-based way for participants to send authenticated, encrypted health information to known, trusted recipients over the Internet.

Google announced on June 24 that Google Health will be discontinued, effective Jan. 1, 2012, with records remaining available to account holders until Jan. 1, 2013. (more…)

What Women Want in Bed?

By PravdaJuly 3, 2011Culturea billion wicked thoughts, air force f 1, american neuroscientists, bikinis, bing, cheerleaders, cinderella dresses, CNN, detective agency, erotic, evolutionary perspective, female brain, female libido, Google, gossip about orlando bloom, hawaii, legolas and heterosexual erotica, libido, Lord of the Rings, male brain, mechanism of the sexual desire in women, men differs, movie star, naked photos, ogi ogas, orlando bloom, pornography, romantic theme, sai gaddam, scientific evidence, sexual button, sexual desire, sexual partner, sexual signaling system, socially aggressive, software, vampire stories, viagra, watch porn, women in bed, Yahoo

What is really important for women in bed? Not only men but also scientists have been looking for an answer to this question. There is a multitude of different opinions from both sexes. The authors of a new book, famous American neuroscientists, argue that the mechanism of the sexual desire in women and men differs greatly.

In a recent U.S. book called A Billion Wicked Thoughts, famous scientists, neuroscientists Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam argue that the female brain is much more complex than that of a male when it comes to the choice of a sexual partner. For their findings, they used statistical data from billions of queries related to sex from Dogpile search engine that combines search results from Google, Yahoo! and Bing, their own experience in sexuality and psychology, as well as the latest scientific evidence about differences in brain activity in men and women. (more…)

comScore Releases May 2011 U.S. Online Video Rankings

By Guest PostJune 17, 2011Technologybrightroll video network, Comscore, Facebook, Google, hulu, internet users, online video, tremor media video network, vevo, viacom digital, video ads, Yahoo, YouTube

*Average YouTube Viewer Watched More Than 5 Hours of Video*

RESTON, VA, June 17, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 176 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in May for an average of 15.9 hours per viewer. The total U.S. Internet audience engaged in more than 5.6 billion viewing sessions during the course of the month.

Top 10 Video Content Properties by Unique Viewers

Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property in May with 147.2 million unique viewers, followed by VEVO with 60.4 million viewers and Yahoo! Sites with 55.5 million viewers. Facebook.com came in fourth with 48.2 million viewers, while Viacom Digital ranked fifth with 46.5 million viewers. Google Sites had the highest number of viewing sessions with more than 2.1 billion, and highest time spent per viewer at 311 minutes, crossing the 5-hour mark for the first time. (more…)

Germany Leads Europe in Online Video Viewing

By Guest PostJune 14, 2011Technologybbc sites, Comscore, comscore video metrix, dailymotion, european countries, Facebook, france, Germany, Google, italy, mike read, online video viewing, prosiebensat1 sites, russia, spain, turkey, uk, YouTube, youtube channel

*Internet Users in Germany, Turkey, Spain and UK Watch Average of At Least 30 Minutes a Day of Online Video*

LONDON, UK, 14 June, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released April 2011 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that Germany leads in online video viewing across several reporting metrics for the European countries currently reported in comScore Video Metrix (France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, Turkey and UK).

“Online video is beginning to compete with traditional television viewing for people’s attention, and Internet users in several European countries are leading the way,” said Mike Read, comScore SVP of Europe. “Germany is not only the largest European market for online video viewing but also the most engaged at nearly 20 hours per viewer per month, while several other countries are not far behind.” (more…)

comScore Releases May 2011 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

By Guest PostJune 10, 2011Technologyamericans, aol, ask network, Comscore, comscore qsearch, Google, google and bing, microsoft sites, organic core explicit searches, qsearch, search direct, search queries, Yahoo

RESTON, VA, June 10, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in May with 65.5 percent of search queries conducted.

The May 2011 qSearch data represents the second month of results including the impact of Yahoo! Search Direct, Yahoo!’s new feature that delivers search results in real-time while users type their query. (more…)

Facebook Users in Argentina Spend 9 Hours a Month on Site, Second Only to Israel in User Engagement

By Guest PostJune 9, 2011Technologyalejandro fishman, Argentina, bernardita valencia, Comscore, comscore media metrix, demographic analysis, Facebook, Google, growing digital industry, iab argentina, internet users, Israel, microsoft sites, online population, university of palermo

*comScore to Host Complimentary Webinar “The State of the Internet in Argentina” on June 14*

Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 9, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study on Internet usage in Argentina from its online audience measurement and media planning solution comScore Media Metrix. The study found that Microsoft Sites led all web properties in audience size in April reaching more than 95 percent of the online population, while visitors averaged the most time on Facebook.com at 8.8 hours per visitor during the month. These findings and others will be presented via a live webinar, The State of the Internet in Argentina, on June 14. For more information and to register, please visit: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/698116824 (more…)