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eMarketer: UK online ad spending will pass £3 billion ($6 billion), and will show healthy growth despite financial and political uncertainties in Britain. This will be the first major wobble in confidence to occur since the UK became a mature wired economy.  

In the UK, pensioners say they would rather surf the Web than garden. Online seniors constitute an expanding and generally affluent market for certain goods and services, including travel and financial products

comScore released its December rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties and site categories in the U.K. based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service.

For the first time, Facebook broke into the top 10 web properties for the UK.

The Google Blog reports that Google Finance UK is open to the public.  Some of the highlights from Google Finance UK include:

• Search with a preference for UK companies and mutual funds.
• Google News integration – With a preference for news from British sources. The news is organized in groups by news topic, rather than listed by date, so you won’t have to scroll through multiple headlines for the same news story.
• Interactive Charts – Map market data with corresponding news stories in a single interactive chart, so you can track news to stock performance. You can also click and drag on the charts to see different time periods, and zoom in for more detailed information.
• Front page market summary with FTSE indices and British pound exchange rates.
• Blogs – Incorporates blog postings for related company information from Google Blog Search.
• Discussion Groups – High quality discussion forums are part of the service. We have a team of folks dedicated to keeping the conversation experience free of spam and irrelevant posts.
• Portfolios – A fast and easy way for you to create and track portfolios of stocks and mutual funds in the currency of your choice.

Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/google-finance-uk-open-for-business.html

Google was the most visited property in October, with 29.1 million unique visitors age 15 or older, and reaching 90 percent of the total U.K. Internet audience. Google was followed by Microsoft Sites, which attracted 27.4 million unique visitors, an 85 percent reach. Wikipedia continued to be the fastest growing property in the top ten most visited properties in October, increasing by seven percent to attract its highest ever U.K. audience of 14.2 million unique visitors.

The U.K.’s two largest online retail properties, eBay and Amazon Sites, both enjoyed increased traffic. eBay grew four percent to 22.2 million unique visitors, with Amazon Sites increasing five percent to 14.3 million. Source: comScore

* Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs