Northwest Passages by Steve Murch

#22 on Seattle Web 2.0 list

I was pleased to see that BigOven.com moved up another 5 places to the #22 position in the Seattle Web 2.0 List for December of the 243 sites tracked by the list, just behind #21 Redfin.com, and beating out many fairly well-known (and/or well-funded) sites like Avvo.com, Cozi.com, Bag Borrow or Steal, Yapta, Earth Class Mail, TripHub, Jott, SmartSheet and more.  Even more promising is that if you just sort on Compete.com rankings, BigOven.com is now #13 on the list.

Thanksgiving & Christmas -- Record Growth for the Site

Following up on my last post, now that we're past the holiday season, it's a good time to reflect on the trends in food search & recipe lookup.

Google shows the following trend for the term "recipe" over time.  Note the repeated and significant peaks at Thanksgiving and Christmas:

BigOven certainly saw these two significant peaks in new user signups, and also in software sales.   We now have over 72,000 registered users, and thousands join each month.