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Bill Tancer is the general manager of global research at Hitwise, the world’s leading online competitive intelligence services. Tancer and his team of analysts are widely quoted throughout the industry on the latest Internet trends. He appears as a frequent guest on CNBC, has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Washington Post and USAToday on topics ranging from the state of e-commerce to predicting American Idol winners using search term research. Tancer also writes a weekly column for Time magazine (Time.com) entitled "The Science of Search.".

About Hitwise

Hitwise is the leading online competitive intelligence service. Only Hitwise provides its 1,400 clients around the world with daily insights on how their customers interact with a broad range of competitive websites, and how their competitors use different tactics to attract online customers.

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Archive for August, 2008

Tune in Tomorrow 8/29 to Good Morning America and 20/20

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

I’ll be on Good Morning America in the 8am hour and my interview with Elizabeth Vargas will be on 20/20 at 10:00pm (ET/PT) tomorrow evening.  If you haven’t left yet for the holidays tune in and hear about data that I discuss in Click as well as some new data.

Freakonomics Guest Posts

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

This month I was honored to be a guest blogger for the Freakonomics Blog on NYTimes.com.  You can check out my posts on the stimulus package and the adult industry, gas prices and Internet sensitivity, and early adopters online.

First Review For Click

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

The first review for Click:
From Publishers Weekly
Do Americans really spend that much time surfing porn sites? Which demographic visited Anna Nicole Smith’s Web site most frequently? Who reads Perez Hilton? More than mere trivia nuggets, the answers to these questions define online behaviors among a varied mix of Internet users. Tancer, who leads global research [...]