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Yahoo! Fires Yet Another CEO – What Next?
16th May 2012
In a move that might not come as a shock to most industry observers, Yahoo! has fired yet another CEO. Scott Thompson, who was appointed CEO only in January, has been fired after his résumé was found to be “misleading”. More »
Yahoo! – Bing Search Alliance Closes In On Google
4th April 2012
The Yahoo! Bing search alliance which has been trying to catch up with the Google search engine has shown a substantial growth in the first quarter of 2012. More »
Revamped Search Functions On Facebook
2nd April 2012
Facebook and Google have been trying to outdo each other at their own game, for a while now. More »
Big Changes Likely In Google Search
16th March 2012
Google is not satisfied with just being the largest search engine in the market. It is believed that they intend to improve their search engine by introducing some new features in the near future. More »
Club Bing Is Closing
17th February 2012
Not even disguising search in the form of entertainment is enough to drive a sufficient flow of visitors to Bing. It has just been announced that Club Bing will soon be shut down. More »
Google To Help Diagnose Ailments
15th February 2012
Google is trying to improve their search results, as far as medical diagnosis is concerned. And this has a few people very concerned. More »
Deaths That Most Shocked the Net [INFOGRAPHIC]
9th February 2012
2011 may have been a big year in terms of online searches for the deaths of famous people, but Michael Jackson’s demise in 2009 is still the ‘Death That Most Shocked the Net’ reveals a new study. More »
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 Networks Do Not Influence Shoppers
18th January 2012
While social networks are growing increasingly popular, quite surprisingly, they have not yet started to influence shoppers in a major way. More »
Microsoft And Yahoo! Search Alliance Creeps Forward In UK
16th January 2012
The Microsoft – Yahoo! search alliance has been functional in the U.S. for some time, and they now intend to expand ad testing to Europe as well. 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 »
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 »
Halloween Drives Online Costume Searches In UK
12th October 2011
Every 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 »
Bing Introduces Action Buttons
23rd September 2011
When 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 »
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 »
Bye Bye Bartz
7th September 2011
In what may be a surprise to many, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz has been booted out the door by the independent directors of the company. More »
Movie Searches Nearly Double
5th September 2011
For some time now, Google has been studying the way users conduct searches for movies online. A whitepaper detailing the results of this study shows that movie search patterns have changed considerably in the past 3 years. More »
Marijuana Companies To Advertise Online
1st September 2011
To 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 »
Google Related
17th August 2011
Google has just announced the launch of a new feature called ‘Google related’. This feature will be a new toolbar for the Internet Explorer as well as for the Google Chrome browser. More »
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