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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 February, 2009

Guest Column For the Times UK

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

When times are bad, click on a cup of tea
Close analysis of internet searches shows how we really react to events like the global downturn

Bill Tancer

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On stage in a crowded meeting room in Central London in 2006, I impulsively decided to go out on [...]

New Click Column in the Wall Street Journal

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

I’ve started a new column that will appear regularly in the Wall Street Journal (online at WSJ.com).  Here’s my first piece on Hulu.com.
In “Alec in Huluwood,” Hulu.com’s first-ever Super Bowl TV spot, Alec Baldwin describes how the streaming video site, a joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp., will allow television to fully, finally [...]