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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 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 »
Indians Stop Wasting Time Online
9th August 2011
It has been found that unlike in the past, Indians are now spending less time surfing the net in a meaningless or aimless manner. Instead, most of their online activities are now well thought out or pre-planned. More »
Google Launches Hotel Finder
1st August 2011
Google has just launched a new service called Hotel Finder, which should be of great use to travelers. The site is easy to use, simple and could definitely compete with the current top hotel booking sites, which it currently relies on. More »
Harry Potter Search Mania
22nd July 2011
The last movie of the popular Harry Potter series was released recently, and this has led to search mania on the subject. More »
Google Peaks UK Market Share
18th July 2011
The 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 »
Bing-Baidu Tie Up
8th July 2011
According to reports from Reuters, China’s largest search engine Baidu has made a deal with Microsoft’s search engine Bing. More »
Teenagers Blissfully Unaware Of Osama Bin Laden
4th May 2011
The 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 »
Google Panda Update Seriously Affects Popular U.K. Sites
19th April 2011
Google launched the Panda update recently in the U.S. in order to improve search result quality. Now they have rolled it out for all English searches Worldwide. This has had serious ramifications in the U.K. More »
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