Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Feb 09)

As usual, check out the analysis for 2008.

For month of Jan 2009.

For Feb 2009, we have the followings:

• The brand of this blog
  
• A company providing HAPS technology
  
• Malwares and Phishings
  
• A speaker in WCIT 2008
  
• Tips for database remote connection over the Internet
  
• People are interested to compete with the biggest ERP software in the world
  
• Internet slow in Malaysia
  

It is fun to see what most people are thinking and having the same problems.

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic increased by 7.77%%
  
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 1.53%
  
• Google still tops contributor (68.16%). Slightly up from last month.
  
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out here.
  
• New visitors 88.30%. This partly due to the increased in traffic from search engines

This blog has a lot of potential. We are constantly seeking more contents and cover a broader aspect of tech news and happenings.

For those looking for collaboration, send email to team@it-sideways.com

Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Jan 09)

Check out the statistic for 2008.

For Jan 2009, we have the followings:

• The brand of this blog
  
• A company providing HAPS technology
  
• Malwares and Phishings
  
• A common VB6 programming problem
  
• Promotional codes for e-learning
  
• A speaker in WCIT 2008
  

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic decreased by 1.11%
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 0.07%
• Google still tops contributor (66.39%). Slightly down from last month.
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore)
• New visitors 87.26%. This partly due to the holiday season where loyal readers and critics were on leave

Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Dec 08)

As usual, check out the analysis for 2007.

For month of Jan 2008
For month of Feb 2008
For month of Mar 2008
For month of April 2008
For month of May 2008
For month of June 2008
For month of July 2008
For month of Aug 2008
For month of Sep 2008
For month of Oct 2008
For month of Nov 2008..

For Dec 2008, we have the followings:

• The brand of this blog
  
• A company providing HAPS technology
  
• Malwares and Phishings
  
• A Common MS Windows' Problem
  
• A common VB6 programming problem
  
• Problems with accessing Apple store in Malaysia
• Internet performance

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic decreased by 9% (This is a more significant decrease compared to last month)
  
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 1.54% and even traffic traffic improved by 1.06%
  
• Google still tops contributor (67.7%). Slightly down from last month.
  
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out here.
  
• 84.22% of visitors are new visitors. (A slight decrease from last month, this is attributed to the increase in traffics from direct and referring sites.)

Conclusion:

• Site loyalty improved. This is good for marketing of certain types of product such as subscription based.
• Dec 2008 is a holiday month for readers and would-be readers, people seemed to use the Internet and search engines for more leisure topics. This is good too :P (let the world take a good break). We have stopped blogging since the past 9 days to respect this great harmony.
• The requirement for ICT news and blogs is most peak at the end of 1st quarter and 3rd quarter 2008. This suggests that people actually started working (selling) at the end of 1st quarter and try to meet quota at the end of 3rd quarter.
• IT-Sideways hasn't gain significant new traffic sources, partly due to limitations of topic categories.
• The ICT summary for 2008 suggests that Malaysian companies are not aggressive in terms of PR and marketing, mostly busy on sales and servicing customers. This is a trade-off for becoming global brand power.

A Year in Search: Google Releases Top Searches in Malaysia during 2008

Google reveals the internet "Zeitgeist" (German for "the spirit of the times") through an exploration of the millions of search queries they receive every day. The fastest rising is more interesting that the most popular, because 'the fastest' rising gives better insights to the queries as it picks up the 'stars' of this years' search terms.

Under 'Google Zeitgeist' there is Google Trends which there are 4 categories may interest you:

• Google Trends – www.google.com.my/trends
• Trends for Websites – trends.google.com/websites
• Insights for Search – www.google.com.my/insights/search
• Hot Trends – www.google.com.my/trends/hottrends

Check out full description here.

For 2008, we see a year where Malaysians are politically savvier than previous years and have been actively searching for political news online. The general election held early this year was definitely still quite fresh on top of mind for Malaysian searchers, as blogs, news portals and political personalities are topping the searches.

• It comes as no surprise that the general election held early this year was top of mind for Malaysian searchers. Anwar Ibrahim edges out Barack Obama to the top of the fastest rising personality searches list, while political blogs, including that of Mahathir’s ‘Chedet’, also rose to prominence, dominating the fastest rising bloggers list.
• The Perodua Nautica, a locally manufactured SUV, is the outright winner among all car model searches done by Malaysians, beating out foreign car models by Honda and Toyota.
• Terengganu beats Genting to bag the top spot for fastest rising local destinations as Malaysians move away from the highlands and onto the exotic beaches and islands of this coastal state.
• Malaysians’ very own Olympic badminton medalist Lee Chong Wei beats all-around swimming champ Michael Phelps on the fastest rising Olympics searches list.

Most popular searches of 2008

1. Youtube
2. Yahoo
3. Friendster
4. Utusan
5. Mp3
6. Google
7. Games
8. Map
9. Lyrics
10. Myspace

Fastest rising searches of 2008

1. Malaysiakini
2. Facebook
3. Harakah
4. TV3
5. Malaysia today
6. Rapidshare
7. Blogspot
8. Youtube
9. Malaysianinsider
10. Beijing 2008

This proves that in the larger picture, many of Google's users are people who do not use browser history and bookmarks.

Check out the full list here.

SearchWiki, Internet Search and Semantic Web

Not long ago, Google published their big vision on the Intelligent Cloud, which is their version of Artificial Intelligence for the future.

That was great and recently they announced SearchWiKi as one of the step moving closer to that vision.

It is not really a WiKi as in Wikipedia... it is a way for users to edit the ranking of search results but that is only relevant to the user themselves. Which means that right now, if you think certain web sites should rank higher for certain key words, you can do that for your own good.

But Google is actually going to leverage on human intelligence to help improve their quest for even better intelligence of search technologies. This is not a catch, it is just a strategy. Like it or not, Google knows who you are in terms of IP address when you are searching for some dirty stuffs, but who cares anyway, life is too short for that. For them (Google), it is more important to improve their technologies than knowing who you are and they are glad that you are part of the help.

Semantic web technologies hasn't been seeing a lot of breakthroughs for this year but there are progresses recorded.

In the general, semantic web technology is the next step of search engine whereby it is supposed to incorporate automation into your search. To make this happen, it requires complicated data analysis functionality and also the support of natural language processing as well as cloud computing as the platform. You can think of cloud computing as the CPU, the natural language processing as the keyboard and data analysis as the output (monitor).

Let's take a look at what is hot in the semantic web arena for 2008.

Companies	Descriptions
Freebase	Freebase is an open, semantically marked up database of information. It looks similar to Wikipedia, but Freebase is all about structured data and what you can do with it.
Calais	A tool for users to incorporate semantic functionality to the blogs
Powerset	Powerset (see our initial coverage here and here) is a natural language search engine. It's fair to say that Powerset has had a great 2008, having been acquired by Microsoft in July this year.
Twine	Organize, share and discover information around your interests
Hakia	Hakia is a search engine focusing on natural language processing methods to try and deliver 'meaningful' search results.
Tripit	Tripit is an app that manages your travel planning.
AdaptiveBlue	the basic idea behind BlueOrganizer is that it gives you added information about web pages you visit and offers useful links based on the subject matter.
TrueKnowledge	UK semantic search engine TrueKnowledge
Talis	A semantic web application platform.
Spock	A people search engine.
BooRah	It uses semantic analysis and natural language processing to aggregate reviews from food blogs.
Swotti	Swotti is a semantic search engine that aggregates opinions about products to help you make purchasing decisions.
Dapper Mashup Ads	New ad network will provide monetary incentive for publishers to have their websites marked up semantically.
Inform	Inform.com analyzes content from online publishers and inserts links from a publisher's own content archives, affiliated sites, or the web at large, to augment content being published.
Siri	Personalized assistant that learns.
Evri	A search engine that emphasizes the relationships between different search terms.
UpTake	aims to make the process of booking travel online easier.
IMINDI	is essentially a mind mapping tool, although it markets itself as a "Thought Engine".
Juice	a new Firefox 3 add-in currently in public beta from Linkool Labs, that makes researching Web content as easy as click-and-drag.
Faviki	social bookmarking tool
Zemanta	Is a blogging tool which harnesses semantic technology to add relevant content to your posts.
SearchMonkey	SearchMonkey allows developers to build applications on top of Yahoo! search, including allowing site owners to share structured data with Yahoo!, using semantic markup (microformats, RDF), standardized XML feeds, APIs (OpenSearch or other web services), and page extraction.

Thanks to ReadWriteWeb for here and here and here.

So, now we know what the world is moving towards semantic web, still a very primitive step towards full fledged Artificial Intelligence. Personally, I am using Zemanta to help me with my blogging.The biggest benefit is the help of sourcing for relevant pictures into be included in the blog. Zemanta is available as a Firefox plugin which works well with blogspot. And it doesn't work well with Malaysia's very slow speed broadband connection.

This close for semantic web 2008 and let us plan ahead of 2009.

Nevertheless, SearchWiki not available to Malaysia yet.

Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Nov 08)

What People Search on Tech Blog Malaysia (Nov 2008) ?

As usual, check out the analysis for 2007.

For month of Jan 2008
For month of Feb 2008
For month of Mar 2008
For month of April 2008
For month of May 2008
For month of June 2008
For month of July 2008
For month of Aug 2008
For month of Sep 2008
For month of Oct 2008

For Nov 2008, we have the followings:

• The brand of this blog
• A company providing HAPS technology
• Malwares and Phishings
• A Common MS Windows' Problem
• A common VB6 programming problem
• Problems with accessing Apple store in Malaysia

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic decreased by 7% (This is a significant decrease)
  
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 1.68%
  
• Google still tops contributor (68.17%). Slightly up from last month.
  
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out here.
  
• 86.51% of visitors are new visitors. (A slight decrease from last month, this is attributed to the total monthly traffic decrease.)

Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Oct 2008)

What People Search on Tech Blog Malaysia (Oct 2008) ?

As usual, check out the analysis for 2007.

For month of Jan 2008
For month of Feb 2008
For month of Mar 2008
For month of April 2008
For month of May 2008
For month of June 2008
For month of July 2008
For month of Aug 2008
For month of Sep 2008

For Oct 2008, we have the followings:

• The brand of this blog
  
• A company providing HAPS technology (This company is popular!)
  
• About Malaysia's recent telco initiatives
  
• MS Windows Installation Tips
  
• A Crystal Report 8.5 Deployment Issue
  
• Malwares and Phishings
  
• A Common MS Windows' Problem
  

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic decreased by 0.3%
  
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 0.6%
  
• Google still tops contributor (67.96%). Slightly up from last month.
  
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out here.
  
• 86.55% of visitors are new visitors. (A % increased from last month, this is attributed to the total monthly traffic surged.)

Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Sep 2008)

What People Search on Tech Blog Malaysia (Sep 2008) ?

As usual, check out the analysis for 2007.

For month of Jan 2008
For month of Feb 2008
For month of Mar 2008
For month of April 2008
For month of May 2008
For month of June 2008
For month of July 2008
For month of Aug 2008

For Sep 2008, we have ...

• A company providing HAPS technology (This company is popular!)
• The brand of this blog
• Malwares and phishing
• Malaysia education initiatives
• Information regarding a top computer networking equipment company in the world
• About a high flying techno CEO in Malaysia
• About Malaysia's recent telco initiatives
• An IT company in Malaysia

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic improved by 4.78%
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 1.53%
• Google still tops contributor (67.22%). Slightly down from last month.
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out here.
  
• 85.51% of visitors are new visitors. (A 3.78% increased from last month, this is attributed to the total monthly traffic surged.)

Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Aug 2008)

What People Search on Tech Blog Malaysia (Aug 2008) ?

As usual, check out the analysis for 2007.

For month of Jan 2008
For month of Feb 2008
For month of Mar 2008
For month of April 2008
For month of May 2008
For month of June 2008
For month of July 2008

For Aug 2008, we have ...

• A company providing HAPS technology
• Malwares and phishing
• The brand of this blog
• Malaysia education initiatives
• Information regarding a top computer networking equipment company in the world
• A Malaysian educational institution

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic improved by 0.5%
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 3.26%
• Google still tops contributor (69.87%)
  
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out here.
• 81.73% of visitors are new visitors.

For more information, please contact team@it-sideways.com

What People Search on Tech Blog Malaysia (July 2008) ?

As usual, check out the analysis for the whole of last year (2007).

For month of Jan 2008
For month of Feb 2008
For month of Mar 2008
For month of April 2008
For month of May 2008
For month of June 2008

For July 2008, we have ...

• A company providing HAPS technology
• The brand of this blog
• A Malaysian educational institution
• Malwares and phishing
• Microsoft OS installation tips
• Malaysia education initiatives
• A global company providing networking solutions

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic plunged
• More traffics from referring sites
• Google still tops contributor
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out full details here.