—Merseyside search stats: A Hitwise study of traffic and search terms in the Liverpool area in March found that of the top 1,000 search terms just 83 were local. While the most visited website may not be a surprise—Liverpool FC’s official site Liverpoolfc.tv—it shows the challenges that local sites have to overcome to compete with the brand power of established online publishers and services. Trinity Mirror’s Liverpool Echo came in at a respectable fifth most trafficked site in March in Merseyside.

—Pirate Bay: The Pirate Bay could earn itself €900,000 (£760,000) a month if all 183,000 on the waiting list for its new system designed to protect file-sharers’ IP addresses from rightsholders. Ipredator virtual private network is an answer to Sweden’s so-called IPRED law, which grants content makers access to the IP numbers.

—Amuso:  Online “game show” maker Amuso has signed deals to get its multiplayer, payment-based trivia game hosted on social Bebo and Metro.co.uk, the website of the national, free newspaper. There is a free and a play-for-cash version, which takes payments via text or PayPal and distributes winnings between the successful player and the sites.