December 21, 2005

Following up on Danny Sullivan’s great article about GBS traffic, here is another view on Google Book Search traffic. These are the GBS page impressions for my UNAUTHORIZED HALF-BLOOD PRINCE NEWS, a book of news and analysis about Harry Potter Book 6, and probably pretty representative of high-profile book keyword phrases. As you can see, the Google Books press releases on Nov. 3 and Nov. 17 had enormous power to jolt GBS traffic, and the long-term trends are all good.

With One Link, Google Book Search Becomes Google’s 5th Most Popular Service: “With One Link, Google Book Search Becomes Google’s 5th Most Popular Service

Google Print Is Google’s Ninth Most Popular Service here on the blog last month covered how according to Hitwise, Google Print — since renamed Google Book Search — made the top ten of most used Google services, though usage was only by a tiny 0.4 percent of Google visitors. Since then, a small change by Google has dramatically increased the visits to Google Book search and pushed it into being the fifth most popular service it offers.”

According to these statistics, GBS traffic tripled between Nov. 5 and Dec. 10.

Blog Ma�onnique, le weblog de la Franc-Ma�onnerie:

La Cl�de Salomon

Le 5e ouvrage de Dan Brown, l’auteur de “Anges & D�mons” et du “Code Da Vinci”, aura pour titre “Beyond the Solomon Key” (La Cl�de Salomon). Il aura pour argument central le meurtre de plusieurs personnages politiques en exercice perpetr�s par un criminel li�aux Francs-Ma�ons. Apr�s s’�tre attaqu�aux Illuminati (dans “Anges & D�mons” o�il avait d�j� �gratign�les Francs-Ma�ons”) et �l’Opus Dei (”Code Da Vinci”)Brown va donc s’en prendre �l’Ordre. Il ne manquera pas d’�voquer les liens entre celui-ci et les p�res fondateurs des Etats Unis. Le d�cor de l’action ne sera plus Rome ou Paris mais, cette fois, Washington D.C., ville dont l’architecture serait ma�onnique. Le livre sortira en anglais le 6 avril 2006. Il s’est d�j�publi�un “Guide to Dan Brown’s the Solomon Key” (Greg Taylor) et “The Solomon Key and Beyond” (W. Frederick Zimmerman).

I love it when they talk French about me.

My apologies for the poor handling of accents–Blogger’s fault, I suppose!