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Google unleashes best example yet of double standards?
Anyone involved with SEO will have no doubt seen the announcement that Google is "enhancing our default search experience for signed-in users". There has been a strong reaction to the news and I can see why. What does the change actually mean? In a nutshell, it means that Google will start encrypting searches and (more importantly) outbound clicks by default. You can read more at a new help page. At…
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September 2011 search engine market share – Google regains momentum
A month ago we published a blog post documenting the U.S. search engine market share data for August 2011, based on data from comScore. The information shared within that post was interesting as it showed that Google’s share of the U.S. search engine market had dipped to under 65 percent for the first time in two years. However, a month on and it looks like normal business has been resumed,…
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Google yourself, would you employ you?
The social web has empowered us all – it has given us a voice with which we can share and consume knowledge, promote our work and create a name for ourselves within a given industry. Unfortunately, it has also given us the ability to render ourselves completely unemployable with the touch of a button. A recent post by our Account Executive, Tom – ‘Sound advice for securing that SEO graduate…
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Google rolls out real-time analytics
There’s barely a day goes by when Google, or one of it’s products, isn’t grabbing headlines for one reason or another. This week it’s all about Google Analytics. Google has announced a new feature as part of it’s free website analytics tool that allows the user to view analytics data in real-time. Google Analytics bod, John Jersin blogged, “Currently, Google Analytics does a great job analyzing past performance. Today we’re…
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Google Wallet set to revolutionise the way we pay
As technology changes so do the contents of our pockets. Smart phones have replaced much of what we used to carry about our person making objects such as mp3 players, diaries and notebooks (actual notebooks) pretty much non-existent. But despite developers best efforts to cram everything in the world in to a single device there are still typically three things the average person never leaves home without – phone, keys…
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August 2011 search engine share data, Google shows slight decline
Latest statistics from comScore show that Google’s share of the U.S. search engine market has dipped for the first time since September 2009. Despite still dominating the market, Google’s share fell slightly in August 2011 when compared to July 2011, from 65.1% to 64.8%. In contrast, Yahoo! gained 2 percentage points in August to claim a total of 16.3% of the market share in the U.S. Bing, which saw no…
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Online video market dominated by Google
Statistics released this week by comScore reveal that Google owned video sites, predominantly YouTube, still lead the US online video market by some margin. Based on unique viewer count, Google is more than two and a half times larger than it’s closest competitor, VEVO. In July 2011 Google clocked up 158.1 million unique viewers, while VEVO had 62.1 million. Facebook climbed in to a close third position with a much…
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Facebook looks to improve relevancy by grouping news stories by topic
As the battle for social media supremacy continues, each party is under constant pressure to out-do one another with attractive new features. Most recently, it’s the the Facebook vs. Google+ battle that has everyone talking. For some time now the general sentiment surrounding Facebook has seemed a little negative, a contrast to the positive reception Google+ has received. For this reason it’s important, now more than ever, that Facebook does…
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Can Google+ help revive Google Realtime Search?
One of the great things the social web provides us with is the ability to follow breaking news as it happens. There’s something particularly captivating about watching news stories unfold before your very eyes. Image via flickr.com/photos/jarchie Back in in December 2009 Google launched ‘Google Realtime Search’ in an effort to capitalise on the web’s new found hunger for live news, providing users with way of searching the social web…
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Chrome overtakes FireFox as second most-popular UK web browser
For the last 12 months the web browser market has been dominated by three browsers in particular – Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome and until now it’s been in that order. In the grand scheme of things there is very little difference between what each of them has to offer, and to the ‘average user’ it doesn't really matter. However, for the more web-savvy among us, it’s the little things…
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