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Google’s New Privacy Policy – What’s Wrong With It?
27th January 2012
Google announced this week that they will be discarding 60 of their privacy policies and replacing them with one common privacy policy, covering multiple products and features of Google. While this might seem a good move for users, it’s not quite as innocent a move as it may seem. More »
UK Search Spend Up 19%
20th January 2012
Search spend in has increased year-on-year by 14% in the USA and 19% in the UK, according to a new report on the state of digital marketing. More »
Social Networking Most Popular Online Activity
11th January 2012
A recent report from comScore highlights the fact that social networking is today the most popular activity, worldwide on the Internet. More »
Google+ Still Showing Huge Growth
4th January 2012
Google’s social network, Google+, which launched publicly only last July has surprised everyone by continuing to sustain its growth spurt. More »
The Most Popular Mobile Websites Of 2011
23rd December 2011
Opera Software has recently released their last report for the year 2011, ranking the 10 most popular websites on mobile. More »
Google Launches New Ad Formats For Tablets
22nd December 2011
Google recently launched new tablet-specific ad formats with a view to satisfy the expectations of this emerging group of users and to help marketers reach out to this rapidly-growing audience effectively. More »
J-Lo, Take That Have Biggest Comebacks On Search
14th December 2011
Take That’s phenomenal musical comeback in 2005 may have been the biggest seen in the UK in recent times but it is only half the size of the comeback made by Jennifer Lopez in the U.S. reveals a new study. More »
Google Hosts First Engage Event For Agencies In London
28th November 2011
On Friday, 25th November, Google organised the first ever Engage event for agencies in the UK. Their objective for this event was to help agencies help small businesses advertise online. This post summarises key topics covered at the event. More »
Google Pushes Google+ At Expense Of Old Products
25th November 2011
As Google’s social networking star, Google+ continues to grow and acquire interesting new features, older Google products continue to be axed, presumably to free-up resources to support their new favourite. More »
Google Music – Hit Or Miss?
18th November 2011
On Wednesday, Google launched an update to a service called ‘Google Music’ that was previously in beta. The service is now available to everyone in the United States and will allow users to upload, purchase, store, share and listen to music in digital form from any device. More »
Google+ Business Pages – Should You Care?
9th November 2011
Google Plus, the social side of Google has recently opened up for business accounts. The new feature, known (unsurprisingly) as Google+ Pages, went live on Monday and the verdict on them is not very encouraging so far. More »
Google Shows Ads At The Bottom Of SERPs
4th November 2011
Google has announced, just this week, that they will now display ads at the bottom of the search engine results page. More »
Google Android Apps Blocked In China
10th October 2011
First they blocked Google search, driving the world’s most popular search engine out of the country, now the Chinese authorities seem to have set their sights on Google Android. More »
Chromebook Earns Retail Space In London
3rd October 2011
Google opened their first ever “store” this weekend. To everyone’s surprise, it is based not in New York or California, but in London, UK. More »
Facebook Evolves Profiles Into Timeline
22nd September 2011
Facebook, it seems, is determined to maintain its position as the number one social network. Keeping this in mind, they are set to make some drastic changes to their format soon. More »
Google Wallet Spreads Across America
20th September 2011
Google Wallet, an app that allows consumers to use their mobile phone as a wallet, is now ready to roll out across a number of major payment providers and one major network in North America. More »
Google Flight Search Takes Off
14th September 2011
Google has just launched a flight search facility, which as the name suggests, helps users to find out more about flight times and availability and to book them. More »
Are Facebook And The Internet More Important Than Toilets?
13th September 2011
A study conducted by the Science Museum in London has revealed that the Internet and Facebook rank higher than basic necessities in a list of fifty things that the British public said they cannot do without. More »
Google Discards Social Failures For +1
9th September 2011
Google recently announced that they will shortly discontinue a number of projects and integrate some with other existing or newly introduced projects. This is being done with a view to “simplify matters for users and to improve the over all Google experience”. More »
Google Willing To Pay Big Money For Hulu
8th September 2011
Several companies including the likes of Amazon, Yahoo! and Dish Network have put in bids to buy over Hulu. Google is the latest to join the bidding war and rumour has it that Google’s willing to outbid them all. More »
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