Chrome Google Chrome has only been around since 2008, but the company has pumped out 18 releases of the software in those five short years, with two more in working development. While users of older Chrome versions have a relatively robust CTR as seen in the graph below, users of the most recent versions are .

Mobile devices have emerged as one of the major means for consumers to access, share, and manipulate information on the web - and it shows no signs of slowing down. As of March 2012, mobile traffic has already seen a 35% increase in under a year, as stated in a previous Chitika Insights study. The .

The last year has been a wild ride in the world of web browsers. Chrome has been quickly gaining on Microsoft Internet Explorer's )MSIE( market share, which traditionally has made up the majority of web browser market share - originating from Microsoft Windows dominance of personal computer industry. It has often been said that the .

The search engine market remained relatively stable in the month of March. Google solidified its position as market leader with a gain of 4.8% in share, propelling it to control over 75% of the overall market. Yahoo's share fell by 5% in March, although it still remains the second most popular search engine. Ask and .

Mac OS X, the Unix-based operating system running on all Apple computers since 2002 is a major part of the brand image, carefully cultured by the company over the course of a decade. All releases of Mac OS X are named after big cats )Cheetah, Jaguar, and Snow Leopard to name a few(, lending itself .

This February saw some unique shifts in the search engine market. Chitika Insights reported that Yahoo saw the largest gain in share across all major search engines. This boost caused Yahoo to pull ahead of Bing, establishing itself as the second largest search engine int he market. If this trend continues to hold, Yahoo will .

Online advertising is one of the fastest growing segments of advertisement. According to emarketer, for the first time in 2012, online advertising will outpace print advertising with $39.5 billion sales. The tremendous increase in online ad spending is expected to continue and reach $62 billion by 2016. Needless to say, online ads are continuing to .

Chitika Insights has covered the heavily publicized launch of Google+ amidst a variety of reported statistics, some which stated that Google+ hosted a user base comprised of over 40 Million people, others which described the fledgling social network as nothing more than a ghost town. Initially, traffic on Google+ saw a rapid rate of growth, .

While HTML5 on mobile phones is becoming more and more important, the reality of the day is that HTML5 features can be most useful on PCs. Chitika Insights latest report investigates the current market penetration of HTML5 across all PC-specific browser platforms. The number of PC users was determined from a sample of hundreds of .

It's no question that Google is currently the dominant search engine in the U.S. market, although their major competitors turn up the heat, and as Google continues to expand on their many product offerings, two key questions have arisen: Is Google focusing on search the way it has in the past? How much longer will .

After enjoying a hugely successful Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Tablet manufacturers have made it clear that there is space for competitors in the open market for companies other than Apple. The HTC Flyer, BlackBerry PlayBook, and the Kindle Fire amongst other devices entered at price points which in some cases are less than half the price .

As computers, mobile devices, and search continue to play an ever increasingly role in the lives of consumers, this holiday season has been projected to lead with the highest grossing revenues in online shopping ever recorded. This development has been supported by the evolution of the web, which has brought vast amounts of information to .

Almost two months after its public debut, Google Plus has seen both highs and lows. Although there was some controversy surrounding the success of its public launch, Google Plus has launched a number of new features, some of which have been met with great fervor, others with mild displeasure. Google Plus now seems to have .

As the holiday season approaches, more consumers than ever will be making purchases from their mobile devices, rather than utilizing their personal computers or the more traditional means of making a trip to the store. According to mobile ad network Jumptap and comScore, 31% of mobile device owners have made a purchase with their device. .

As geo-location and real-time mapping begin to play a larger role in online advertising, a distant fear looms on the horizon. For quite some time, publishers have been granted the benefit of supposed "free" products such as Bing Maps or Google Analytics, with little thought to the real cost of these services. However, all of that will soon change. With usage charges for services like Google Maps set to begin in January, exploring alternative solutions that are free,

On Monday, October 17th, Apple announced that over twenty five million customers have made the iOS 5 update. For reference, iOS5 was released on October 12th, only five days prior to the announcement. The iOS5 update features all sorts of new additions like the Notification Center, iMessage, and Newsstand. To investigate this, Chitika Insights analyzed traffic from within the Chitika Inc. online advertising network to see the level of iOS5 impact.

Over the past few days there has been a lot of buzz surrounding the coverage of Google+, particularly focusing on the measured 60% downward trend seen in the site's traffic as reported by Chitika Insights. In further investigation of this matter, Chitika researched traffic patterns of the social network to determine whether the downward trend witnessed was a short term fluctuation as some proposed, or just the start of a longer term trend.

Although social media sites have been around for less than a decade, they have played an active role in shaping the future and culture of the Internet, and probably will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Search engine marketers have been long studying the web-browsing habits of various demographics " including their choice of browser and search engine.