Online Marketing News Archive

We had a huge number of visits to our ‘Google Nexus One Phone only available to Google Apps users?‘ post last week, confirming the massive worldwide interest in the new Nexus One phone from Google.
It was, as expected, officially launched at a press event on the 5th January and made available online from www.google.com/phone during … Read full article>

Anyone with an interest in mobile phones and, more specifically, the android platform and the mystical Google phone cannot fail to have avoided the current noise about the Google Nexus One phone.
Since the first news / photos / rumours of the actual existence of the HTC produced handset hit the blogosphere, it has been staggering … Read full article>

An interesting move from the Metropolitan Police’s Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) saw the removal of 1,219 scam websites last week. Dubbed ‘Operation Papworth‘, this is believed to be the biggest single swoop of its kind in the world.
The websites are thought to have generated millions of pounds for organised criminal gangs, Scotland Yard’s Central e-crime … Read full article>

Last week Google announced the launch of it’s new feature that now allows users to quickly and easily find relevant and up to date information on music related searches.
According to Google Insights, 2 out of the top 10 searches performed on Google’s search engine are music related, and up till now it could often take … Read full article>

Earlier this week it was announced that Google has finally made a deal with Twitter, to enable them to show Twitter updates in it’s search results pages.
Microsoft and Twitter reached an agreement sometime ago, so Bing is already showing Tweets as results on it’s SERP’s and now Google has also managed to come to an … Read full article>

According to the lastest report released by comScore this week, it would appear that Bing’s growth is gradually slowing down, whilst Google’s is on its way up again.
Does this mean that Microsoft’s share in the market has peaked or can it continue to grow and really pose a threat to Google?
comScore’s September report shows that … Read full article>

Earlier this week, Google announced it’s latest update to it’s search engine results pages, it’s adding helpful links to it’s ’snippets’.
Over the last couple of months, Google has made many changes to it’s search results pages, including improvements to the snippets, and this latest update means that Google will now be providing a selection of … Read full article>

Earlier this week Google launched it’s new search feature in it’s latest attempt at becoming more real-time, and providing it’s users with information about the hottest current events and topics.
Twitter has become extremely successful over the years, allowing users to microblog or ‘Tweet’ within seconds about current topics, people and events, which is causing others … Read full article>

Earlier this week ComScore released it’s monthly qSearch analysis report, conducted on the U.S Search Market throughout August and it shows some interesting results.
The report shows that last month there were 13.9 billion core searches performed in the U.S alone, with Google’s share of that figure being 64.9%, Yahoo!’s 19.3% and Microsoft’s 9.3%.
When comparing these … Read full article>

After the recent announcement from Facebook and due to the growing success of Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, Google is having to step up it’s game in the search engine market in order to keep up with the competition, so has therefore released a new version of it’s search engine, that has been codenamed ‘Caffeine’.
The … Read full article>