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• How online activities of broadband and dial-up users differ
• US broadband adoption grew 17% in 2008
• What Americans do online
• Top 50 US ad carriers in August 2008
• Top food search terms in August 2008
• Fastest-growing Web categories in Germany in July 2008
• 33% of internet non-users are not interested in the internet
• 39% of internet users used a handheld device to go online
• Growth of European Internet Audience in June 2008
• European Internet Usage in June 2008
• Top sites in Spain in June 2008
• Top-growing sites in Japan, June, 2008
• Internet traffic up 53% in the last 12 months
• Internet audience growth in Asia-Pacific in April 2008
• Number of Internet users in Asian countries in April 2008
• 16.5 mln UK households are online
• Top US search engines in June 2008
• 39% of US households will rent videos online by 2012
• Top Web companies in June 2008
• What Web sites people visit on mobile phones
• Fastest-growing search terms in June 2008
• US Internet user profile by demographics
• Top food search terms in June 2008
• US Internet usage in July 2008
• Mobile Internet Penetration Across Countries
• Gymnasts ranked by online buzz
• Top lifestyle search terms in June 2008
• Top dating search terms in June 2008
• US visits to social networking sites in June 2008
• Top aviation search terms in June 2008
• Top search query generators in UK in June 2008
• Time spent on social networks in June 2008
• Top automotive search terms in June 2008
• Traffic to Apple.com after iPhone and iPhone 3G launches
• Online political activity between Obama and McCain supporters
• Top iPhone-related search terms in June 2008
• Online political activities by age
• Top search terms in June 2008
• Who visits online banking sites in Canada
• 37% of those who politically engaged online say the internet helps them feel more personally connected with the candidates
• Top US domains by traffic in June 2008
• Growth in political content sharing and creation since fall 2006
• Top 5 online video US sites, May, 2008
• 65% of online Obama’s supporters and 56% of online McCain’s supporters get political news online
• Top social networks in UK
• Political content sharing and creation stats
• Top education search terms in June 2008
• Political activities of US Internet users as compared to total population
• 35.3 mln cable and 29.7 mln DSL subscribers in the US in Q2 2008
• Top Canadian online banking sites in April 2008
• 55% of Republicans, 61% of Democrats, and 56% of independents look online for news about politics or the 2008 campaigns
• Top video sites in Germany in May 2008
• Top German sites in May 2008
• Demographics of financial news and research sites
• In May 2008, YouTube received 82% of its visits from returning visitors
• Top US search sites in May 2008
• 36% of online Democrats, 21% of Republicans and 28% of independents have a profile on a social networking site
• 1.4 bln people will use the Internet in 2008
• Political News Consumers, 2004 vs. 2008
• 45% of online Democrats and 34% of Republicans go online
• 27% of internet users go online once a week to do something related to Presidential campaign
• Top sites in France in May 2008
• Top US online video sites in May 2008 by videos per user
• 3 bln devices to access the Internet by 2012
• Top US online video sites in May 2008 by number of videos
• Total mortgage loan applications submitted online in Q1 2008
• China’s online population to grow to 375 mln users in 2012
• Top US search engines in June 2008
• 35% of all adults have watched a politically related video
• General role of the Internet in US politics
• 40% of adults use internet to get news about the election
• Top US search engines in May 2008
• Top US sites in June 2008
• 10% of social network users engage in political activity of some kind
• Top German online video sites in May 2008
• Stats on accessing Internet via mobile device around the world
• 1.4 bln Internet users in 2008
• 50% of all Internet users will make online purchases in 2008
• 323 mln broadband users in 2007, 499 mln by 2012
• 253 mln Chinese Internet users, 214 mln of them use broadband
• Top US search engines in May 2008
• 19% of all online users are seriously into sports
• Fastest-growing US web sites in May 2008
• Top social networking sites in France in April 2008
• Top social networking sites in France in April 2008
• Top online ad campaigns by fast food chains
• Top US Web sites in May 2008
• New and returning visitors to social networks in May 2008
• Top US domains in May 2008
• Online tools used by those who use the internet in their housing search
• Top US search engines in May 2008
• Time spent on social networking in May 2008
• Leading search engines in May 2008
• Top US Web companies in May 2008
• 29% of new house buyers believe online information helped them get a better price on their house or apartment
• Fastest-growing US web categories in May 2008
• Top food search terms in May 2008
• Top 10 Web sites by video streams for April 2008
• What do people do when they start looking for a place to live?
• Top US Web sites in May 2008
• Top online video destinations for US users ages 12-17
• Top lifestyle search terms in May 2008
• 39% of cell phone buyers research phones on the internet
• Top online video destinations for US users ages 2-11
• Top education search terms in May 2008
• Top search sites in April 2008
• How do online music buyers find out about new music?
• US monthly online video consumption in April 2008
• Top dating search terms in May 2008
• What online users do after buying music
• 15% of consumer time is spent online, 9% of ad budgets are currently online
• Top US advertising carriers in May 2008
• US Internet user profile by age
• Top aviation search terms
• 162 mln Americans went online in May 2008
• Top search terms in May 2008
• Top US online video sites in April 2008
• Top automotive search terms
• 162 mln Americans went online in May 2008
• Fastest-growing search terms in May 2008
• Top US search engines in May 2008
• How dependent are sites on search engines in May 2008
• Top search engines in UK in May 2008
• US search engines share in May 2008
• How cell-phone buyers learn about their future cell phone
• Traffic to shopping sites in May 2008
• 27% of internet users downloaded music from the internet in 2008
• Top food-related search terms
• What do music buyers do after buying music online?
• Internet ads grew by 23.9% to $7.1 bln in Q1 2008
• Top lifestyle search terms
• Fatest-growing Web sites in Canada in March 2008
• Top French online video sites in January 2008
• Top domains by time spent browsing per month in UK in March 2008
• UK most popular online banking sites in January 2008
• Fastest-growing sites in Germany in April 2008
• Fastest-growing Web categories in Canada in March 2008
• Top French online video sites in January 2008
• Top domains by time spent browsing per month in United States in March 2008
• Top visited US TV websites in 2006-2008 TV seasons
• Where Latin American Internet users come from in April 2008
• Top 10 fastest-growing search terms in April 2008
• Top UK online newspapers in March 2008
• Top US online video sites by videos per user
• Top US online video sites in March 2008
• Top-10 Rankings music -bands and artists category in US in April, 2008
• Top-growing US web sites in US in March 2008
• 57% of US teens have a short attention span
• 86% of cell phone owners likely to be internet users
• What people do when they start the process of looking for a place to live
• How users learn about new cell phones
• 56% of Internet users who researched their cell phone before buying ended up being satisfied with purchase
• Only 7% of internet users went online for information or help with the problems with their cell phones
• 29% of Americans said online information helped them get a better price on their house or apartment
• 47% of black teens have written in a personal journal in the past year
• Top education search terms
• Top dating search terms
• Average US internet usage in April, 2008
• Top US Web sites in April 2008
• US Internet penetration by demographic profile
• US Internet audience profile in April 2008
• 37% of social network profile owners write a journal
• 63% of black teens use social networking profiles for communication
• 57% of black teens write in a journal for school
• 87% of all teens engage in electronic communication
• 44% of US teens have a journal
• 6% of US teens write software for personal enjoyment
• 63% of teenage internet users now go online daily
• Top Web sites in Japan for March 2008
• 39% of teens say they talk with their friends in person outside of school
• 66% of teens live in households with broadband
• 89% of teens log in from home
• Only 87% of Hispanic teens go online
• Leading US search engines in April 2008
• Most popular US URLs in April 2008
• Top Web sites in Canada in March 2008
• Average US time spent in April 2008
• 49% of consumers listen to radio for new music
• 18% of US consumers have listened to an audio podcast
• 72% of teens usually write longhand
• US weekly online radio audience increased in 2007 to 33 mln
• 71% of teens currently have a cell phone and computer at home
• The number of social network users in Latin American countries grew 103% in January 2008
• How internet users who have bought music in 2007 use online resources to learn about music
• 60% of Internet users in Latin American countries are using social networks
• The most popular social network in Latin American countries is Orkut
• Top-growing sites in Russia in February 2008
• 41% of weekly online radio listeners have a social networking profile
• Fastest-growing sites in March 2008
• 44% of Americans say Internet outage would disrupt their lives
• Top 10 sites in March 2008
• US Internet usage in March 2008
• US Internet users demographic profile in March 2008
• 220 mln Internet users in China, making China #1 by number of users
• Internet penetration in Russia is at 27%
• 35% of search engine users do not use vertical search
• 30% of broadband users and 20% of dial-up users conduct image searches
• 45% of US employers monitor employee computer usage and keystrokes
• US currently accounts for 21% of Internet users, down from 66% in 1996
• 52% of Internet users connect wirelessly

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