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Yearly Archives: 2009
Can somebody explain what social media really means?
We have just found a superb presentation on social media that we wanted to share. We can’t take any credit for the slideshow, which goes to Marta Kagan, but hope that you find it as interesting as we do. It is a follow up to last year’s ‘What the F**k is Social Media’ and manages to summarise the key opportunities that exist with social networking extremely well – there is…
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Microsoft and Yahoo! join forces in the battle against Google
In Microsoft’s latest quest to challenge Google for search market share, it has finally struck a deal with Yahoo! to really stir things up. After months of speculation over a possible deal between Microsoft and Yahoo!, they have finally announced their collaboration to take on their chief rival, Google. The deal proposed will see the two companies joining forces, with Yahoo!’s search engine being powered by Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo!…
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Bing Results to Include Tweets
A week or so ago, Bing revealed that it is coming up to date and will now be including real-time results in it's SERP's on a selection of searches that are performed on their new and improved search platform. Since Twitter was launched, it has continued to grow at a phenomenal rate with users loving the concept of knowing what others are doing and being keep up to date in…
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Take advantage of Google’s search options and ‘Fresh’ results
Over the last couple of years, around the same time that Twitter was launched, most of the major search engines have started to introduce the idea of ‘real-time’ results and include a ‘freshness’ factor to the results returned for some of the queries that are performed on their search engines. This new criteria has had dramatic implications for web site owners, as it means that they need to constantly update…
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Who will triumph in the battle between Google and Facebook?
Since Facebook was launched in 2004, and driven by the fact that it has continued to grow ever since, there has been a lot of rivalry between them and the other dominant sites on the Internet, most of all Google. Since the launch, there has been a lot of speculation and coverage about a possible take over by Google, but it seems that Facebook were not interested and just used…
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Google’s New ‘Change of Address’ Feature
A few weeks ago Google announced the redesign of their webmaster tools and since the launch they have received an encouraging amount of useful feedback that they have chosen to take on board and do something about. The main thing that they have decided to introduce and something definitely worth noting, as it could be very useful for some web site owners, is the ‘change of address’ feature. This new…
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Google Launches Google Squared
Over the years Google has come to realise that some search queries performed on their search engine cannot be answered on a single page or even by a few web pages found in their results and that some actually require nearer twenty pages to find all the answers that the user is looking for. For instance if you were looking for a particular service, rules to a game or a…
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Can Bing Really Compete with Google?
A couple of weeks ago we announced the launch of the new Search Engine or 'Decision' Engine, as they like to call it, from Microsoft, that they have chosen to call Bing. Over the years, Microsoft has launched many new versions of it's search engine, Bing being it's fourth attempt, to try and challenge the Google's dominance in the Search Market. The previous endeavours have not even scratched the service…
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Bing – Microsoft Launches it’s new ‘Decision’ Engine
Last week, we wrote about the hype around Microsoft’s new Search Engine and the speculation about it’s new and improved name and we can now announce that it is, as predicted, going to be ‘Bing’. This new product, that they are referring to as a ‘Decision’ Engine, is Microsoft’s latest attempt in it’s battle against the current search engine giant, Google, and Microsoft feels that with it’s new features and…
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