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The data below is also from Hitwise based on All sites » Weekly rankings for the week ending 25/08/2007 » Ranks by ‘Visits’.

TripAdvisor
Asiarooms.com
Uniquely Singapore (visitsingapore.com)
Genting - City Of Entertainment (genting.com.my)
Asiatravel Reservation System Hotel (hotel.asiatravel.com)
HotelClub (hotelclub.com)
Sentosa (sentosa.com.sg)
NSRCC Resort & Country Club (esrcc.com.sg)
Lonely Planet (lonelyplanet.com)
Rates To Go (ratestogo.com)

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According to Hitwise Singapore, MediaCorp’s new classifieds website, Mocca launched as the leading website in the Hitwise Classifieds industry, week ending 11 August 2007, capturing 36.44% of the market.

Mocca: 36.44%
Yahoo! Singapore Classifieds: 13.32%
eFair Singapore Classifieds: 7.04%
Friendster - OLX: 5.35%
Adpost: 4.66%
Singapore Expats Classifieds: 3.62%
SgAdsOnline: 2.97%
Etsy: 2.81%
pHing: 2.68%
OnLine eXchange Singapore: 2.60%

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If you didn’t have a chance to attend SES San Jose conference, here is a good wrap-up post you can benefit from.
I reproduced a PDF file from the posts as future digest myself but failed to get permission from them to share in the blog to benefit the crowd. Well, you can still go there [...]

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Hunger for fame
Urge to have fun
Desire to share experiences with friends

McKinsey research surveyed 573 users of four leading online video-sharing sites in Germany and finds that motives such as a desire for fame and a feeling of identification with a community encourage collaboration and participation.

You may be wondering how many people you need to motivate [...]

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Oneupweb released their Internet Retailer Study 2007 report a short while ago, which shows the following results:

Well-optimized sites are over 60 percent more likely to have a regular blog and/or podcast hosted on their sites in comparison to non-optimized sites.
Only 40 percent of the IR 100 leading retailers’ websites are optimized well or moderately well.
The [...]

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Singapre Airlines (SIA) would be the first airline in the world to start commercial flight of the super jumbo airbus A380. The first flight would be on Oct 25 2007 from Singapore to Sydney and the seats would be on charity auction starting on Monday for two weeks.
The proceeds of the auction will be split [...]

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According to Hitwise, the most popular travel websites are:

Asiarooms.com
Streetdirectory.com
Zuji Singapore (www.zuji.com)
Asia Travel (www.asiatravel.com)
Jetstar (www.jetstar.com)

Wait, where is Tiger Airways?

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Even some big brand websites are still using dynamic URL showing kinds of unfriendly parameters with “?” and “&”. You may have heard of recommendation of rewriting those dynamic URLs. However, the techniques are simple but there could a lot of reasons some corporate websites can’t do that.
Yahoo! just released a dynamic URL rewriting tool [...]

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Answer: over 2/3 by offline channel, the mass media according to iProspect offline channel influence on online search behavior study (PDF version).

The vast majority (67%) of online users are being driven to perform a search as a result of exposure to these offline channels when the majority of offline advertising does very little to facilitate [...]

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Yesterday, after failing to find a cheaper airticket to Beijing at some well known travel portal like Travelocity, I turned to Google for answers and this showed up:

I wasn’t able to retrieve the same page by searching for “singapore beijing” in Google. So, is this possibly another case of behavior targeting?

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