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Happy New Year

We are going to start the year by adding a few new recordings to our collection and work on this started yesterday.

We also got the monthly stats update on search engine shares and browsers.

Surprisingly our search engine share is reasonably close to the average now with a couple of noticeable exceptions. We get next to nothing from MSN where the average get about 9% and conversely our Google UK share is up a couple of points compared with the average probably because of where we are based. Our Yahoo share is right in line with the average. We do have a few good positions on MSN so it is really hard to understand why they perform so badly for us but we are not going to loose to much sleep over it.

On the browser front Firefox is continuing to make progress and in our case it has gone up two points in the month to 18% - we really are attracting visitors of taste and discernment. ( This blog is produced on Firefox - our browser of choice.)

Yesterday was a quiet day and yet again we were prompted to look for a daily search traffic report but no joy. There is a site which tracks internet response times and congestion but there are no direct volume indicators. I suppose it is not in the interests of any of the players to make their data available since competitive and operational performance might be exposed.

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- where a free Carol of Bells MP3 recording is available until the twelth day of Christmas.

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