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Recent ‘search’ News Stories
Halloween Drives Online Costume Searches In UK
Wednesday, 12th October 2011Every year, around September, searches for ‘costumes’ and related keywords start spiking, not just in the USA but also in England and the rest of the UK. This is, of course, due to Halloween, which is celebrated more and more popularly in the UK on the 31st of October. (more…)
Tags: halloween, search, search engine marketing, yahoo search marketing
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Bing Introduces Action Buttons
Friday, 23rd September 2011When Microsoft first introduced Bing as their new search engine, they had said that Bing was more than just a search engine. According to them it was a “decision engine”. They have now gone a step further to make this statement a reality by introducing ‘Action Buttons’. (more…)
Tags: bing, links, search
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Marijuana Companies To Advertise Online
Thursday, 1st September 2011To date, most search engines and ad networks have banned advertising Marijuana and any other narcotics. Now, for the first time, a search company based in San Francisco will allow the advertising of marijuana online. (more…)
Tags: google adwords, search, search engine marketing
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Google Chrome Loads Instant Pages
Wednesday, 3rd August 2011During an Inside Search event in June 2011, Google had announced that they would be launching Instant Pages. They have now launched this new service. (more…)
Tags: chrome, google, instant pages
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Mobile Shopping Catches On In The U.K.
Wednesday, 27th July 2011It has been reported by The British Retail Consortium that mobile retail searches in the country are on the rise. (more…)
Tags: mobile commerce, mobile search
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Bing Testing Ads Within Organic Search Results
Monday, 25th July 2011Bing is testing a new format of advertising inter-mingled with their organic search results. This could have serious implications in the search market across the board. (more…)
Tags: advertising, bing, google, microsoft, search engine marketing, seo
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Harry Potter Search Mania
Friday, 22nd July 2011The last movie of the popular Harry Potter series was released recently, and this has led to search mania on the subject. (more…)
Tags: harry potter, search, yahoo
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Google Peaks UK Market Share
Monday, 18th July 2011The latest report released by Hitwise reveals that Google Search has crossed all its previous records as far as market share in the U.K. is concerned. (more…)
Tags: facebook, google, microsoft, search, seo, yahoo, youtube
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Bing-Baidu Tie Up
Friday, 8th July 2011According to reports from Reuters, China’s largest search engine Baidu has made a deal with Microsoft’s search engine Bing. (more…)
Tags: baidu, bing, search
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Teenagers Blissfully Unaware Of Osama Bin Laden
Wednesday, 4th May 2011The death of Osama Bin laden on Sunday has resulted in a renewal of interest in him. However, according to the Yahoo! Search Blog, teenagers seem to be quite unaware of who he is. (more…)
Tags: google, news search, Osama Bin Laden, search, yahoo
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Is Google’s Mobile Paid Search Monopoly A Good Thing?
Thursday, 10th March 2011The increased use of mobile search has in turn led to the increase in the revenue generated by mobile paid search. Google dominates this space with a worryingly large market share. (more…)
Tags: google, google adwords, mobile advertising, mobile ppc, mobile search
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Bing Launches Mobile & Desktop Deals
Monday, 7th March 2011Bing has recently launched a new feature that facilitates local commerce via their mobile and desktop search services. The new feature is shown as ‘Deals’ in the Bing menu. (more…)
Tags: bing, groupon, mobile, mobile search, mobile-local-search
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Google Accuses Microsoft Of Search Results Plagiarism
Wednesday, 2nd February 2011Google has publicly claimed that the Microsoft search engine, Bing, is copying Google’s search results. (more…)
Tags: google, microsoft, seo
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Next For Google: Delivering Search Results Before You Search
Monday, 20th December 2010After having provided Instant Search Results, the logical next step for Google seems to be to provide search results before a user makes a search. (more…)
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Yahoo! Clues Point To Anti-Gay Bias?
Thursday, 25th November 2010Yahoo! has recently launched a new keyword and search comparison tool called Yahoo! Clues. This tool allows search marketers to study patterns followed by users while conducting a search. It also gives information about what terms were searched just before and after a particular keyword. The tool however, has made some glaring omissions. (more…)
Tags: gay, keyword-research, search, search engine marketing, yahoo
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Jeeves Made Redundant? Ask Ends Search
Friday, 12th November 2010Ask.com, which was previously known as Ask Jeeves, had restarted their Question & Answer service in July. They will now concentrate solely on this and shut down their search service. (more…)
Tags: ask.com, search
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Microsoft And Yahoo! Search Allies In UK
Friday, 5th November 2010The Microsoft and Yahoo! Search alliance which has taken off in the U.S. and Canada is now preparing to make its way over to Europe. (more…)
Tags: microsoft, microsoft-adcenter, pay per click, search engine marketing, uk, yahoo
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Advancing Google Place Search
Tuesday, 2nd November 2010A new search feature called Place Search was introduced by Google last week. After a rather unobtrusive start, local search is now looking like it might drastically change the presentation of results for organic search. Is this being done at the expense of other search services? (more…)
Tags: google, local-search, ppc, search, seo
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Bing Discusses the Future of Mapping
Thursday, 28th October 2010Microsoft hosted an event in London yesterday to discuss the future for Bing maps with a panel of industry experts and users. John Craske from AccuraCast reports on the event. (more…)
Tags: bing, maps, microsoft
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