Archive for December, 2007

Google Checkout Overtakes Paypal In UK

Friday, 28th December 2007

A recent report from Hitwise found that traffic to Google Checkout has overtaken PayPal in the first two weeks of December and has held its lead since then. The number of downstream visitors from Google Checkout has also grown rapidly, which might indicate that while people visit the site they don’t necessarily buy using Google Checkout. (more…)

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Influence Of Search On Brand Affinity

Thursday, 27th December 2007

Google recently commissioned search engine market research firm Enquiro to carry out an online survey & eye tracking study to test the effect brand placements in search results have on brand affinity in the minds of consumers. The study carried out on 2,722 subjects aged 25+ found that placement in the top Sponsored and Organic results can drive up brand affinity by as much as 16 percent. (more…)

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Season’s Greetings

Tuesday, 25th December 2007

Merry Christmas & a very Happy New Year to all our readers! Enjoy the little festive video we have picked for you… (more…)

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Bright Future For Ad-Funded Mobile Networks

Wednesday, 19th December 2007

Ad funded Mobile Virtual Network Operator Blyk has made a promising start. UK sales director Jonathan McDonald announced that customer click-through rates on the network ranged between 12 and 43 per cent, which is far superior to what is being seen for other operators or on other media. (more…)

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MySpace Launches Free Ad Funded Mobile Version

Tuesday, 18th December 2007

Fox Interactive Media has launched a free, ad-funded mobile version of its social networking site MySpace. The new mobile version of MySpace will now work on all US mobile carrier networks. (more…)

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Google’s New Project, Knol, Takes On Wikipedia

Monday, 17th December 2007

Knol is the latest project undertaken by Google. Based on the lines of Wikipedia, Hubpages and Squidoo, it is being viewed as Google’s way of capitalising on Wikipedia’s original idea of a user-generated information hub and at the same time stopping its traffic from flowing into Wikipedia. (more…)

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Google Bans Lingerie Ads For “Sexual” Content

Thursday, 13th December 2007

For a company that likes to portray itself as a “fun” and “cool”, Google has been neither in recent times. In their latest display of prudishness the search giant has banned all the ads from lingerie retailer Pampered Passions’ latest campaign for their supposedly adult content. (more…)

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Microsoft Launches New Search Marketing Tools

Tuesday, 11th December 2007

When it comes to the game of search marketing, it can be easily said that Microsoft is positioned behind Google and Yahoo. However Microsoft now wants to lessen this gap with the launch of three new tools, namely the adCenter Add-in for Excel, adExcellence and the new Webmaster Center. (more…)

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Ignoring Privacy Was Indeed A Bad Idea For Facebook

Monday, 10th December 2007

Facebook has changed its controversial Beacon advertising system following a spate of flare ups in complaints and dissatisfaction against commercialization of private choices by members. (more…)

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Visitors Can Now Digg Images

Friday, 7th December 2007

Digg has finally launched an image section where the URL of a submitted story is crawled to generate thumbnails. The new section of the popular social news site does away with uploading hyperlinks to images. Image bookmarking will also be a lot easier now. (more…)

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Google Launches Locator For Non-GPS Mobile Phones

Monday, 3rd December 2007

My Location launched by Google enables phones without an in-built GPS to be used as locators. Google aims to tap a large chunk of the mobile market through this new mobile tracking system. (more…)

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