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Hitwise Press Release – 1st April,
2003
Australian’s
search Internet for non-bias war truths.
For
Immediate Release
Day
twelve of the war in Iraq, and interesting insights
are surfacing online as Australians search the Internet
for the unbiased story. The website www.aljazeera.net
which is a news and media website providing news from
the Arab world has rocketed 60 positions among News
& Media websites since January 25th 2003.
Likewise,
the ArabYnet website www.arabynet.com provides news
from Israel in Arabic and includes links to related
articles of interest. This website has become
the most popular News & Media – Print website
by average time. Australian Internet users are
viewing the ArabYnet website for an astonishing average
time of 88.52 minutes. This is 58.36 minutes
MORE than its nearest News & Media – Print
competitor.
Hitwise
Clickstream statistics demonstrated that 11.76% of
the traffic going to the ArabYnet website originated
from www.aljazeera.net interestingly, 7.35%
of traffic leaving the ArabYnet website returned back
to www.aljazeera.net
As
depicted above, other News & Media – Print
websites which are ranking very highly in average
time are not only those informing readers about the
war in Iraq. Asian based News & Media –
Print websites are also attracting massive average
times on from their readers as the pneumonia outbreak
intensifies.
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