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Google returns better results for music videos, including competitors
A blog posted by Google on Friday afternoon revealed that it has begun showing links to different video sites and search engines in its music related search results, not just YouTube. In an effort to provide users with better video results, the videos will include clear text indicating the length of the video, the album and the year it was published. For example, we searched for Green Day, and got…
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Report reveals overall marketing budget cuts in Q4, but growth in display and search
The latest IPA and BDO Bellwether report has revealed that almost a quarter of UK marketers reduced their budgets in the last quarter of 2010. Of 300 companies surveyed, from the country’s top 1000, 22% of marketers reported a reduction in their budget towards the end of 2010, against just 17% who said they were increasing their investment. Confidence dipped to the lowest point in 18 months as marketers grew…
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The new social Q&A search experience from Ask.com
Q&A sites have been a hot topic of conversation over the past few weeks. In particular, start-up ‘social Q&A site’, Quora, which has been generating a lot of buzz online and dominating headlines of tech blogs. Quora may be flavour of the month in digital town but it’s not without competition – enter, Ask.com. Back in November 2010, Ask.com officially announced that it would no longer be operating as a…
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Study reveals interesting user search behaviour statistics
Econsultancy recently reported highlights from the “2010 Search Engine Results Page (SERP) Insights Study” by Performics. The study, which took place in the US offers some very interesting insights in to users’ motivations and behaviour when using search engines. Courtesy of Econsultancy, here is a summary of key findings from the report: Natural search vs. Paid search When asked if they know the difference between natural and paid search results……
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Quora – the next big thing or just a lot of Q&A?
Q. What is Quora? A. Quora is socially fuelled question and answer site that was founded in June 2009 by former Facebook executives Charlie Cheever and Adam D'Angelo. It went public in June 2010. Questions are entered in to the search box and answered by the Quora community. Answers to questions are prioritised by how useful they are and the site uses Twitter-style following to track the best contributors. The…
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Differences in Google search rankings – Mobile vs. Desktop
There has been much debate amongst SEO professionals about the differences between smartphone listings in Google and desktop Web listings. Most claim that they’re the same, but a recent study suggests otherwise… Last week, Bryson Meunier shared an interesting blog post about the “Differences in Mobile Smartphone Ranking and Desktop Web Ranking in Google Search”. In order to gauge a better understanding of whether or not the desktop web results…
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It may be Christmas, but don’t neglect social media
In the words of Andy Williams, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year”. There will indeed be “parties for hosting” and “marshmallows for toasting” but there’s also blogs to be blogged and tweets to be tweeted. There's a temptation to slow down social media efforts over the Christmas period, but don’t make that mistake, because for many businesses it’s one of the most important times of year. There are…
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Google Wave lives on as Apache Wave
Google Wave was the most hyped launch of 2009, but unfortunately failed to attract users and failed spectacularly. Google pulled the plug in August and open-sourced the code in September. Two weeks ago Google announced that it had submitted a proposal to the Apache Software Foundation. Mission being – bring Wave back from the dead. In Google’s proposal to Apache, the company’s goals were to migrate the codebase from…
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Google adds social site links to search results
This week Google has rolled out social sitelinks to search results, giving direct access to your friends social content online. Google blogged, “Usually when you search for a social site like Twitter or MySpace, you’re looking for information from your friends and social network, like their tweets and profile pages”. So with this in mind, social sitelinks display your friends recent content at the top of the results page. For…
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Search engine market shares around the world
We recently reported the web browser usage share statistics for November 2010 based on research by Net Applications. While in the statistics groove, we were interested to see that Econsultancy has created a very nice infographic showing search engine market shares across 10 countries around the world. Econsultancy blogged; “We were conducting research into search engine market shares around the world and couldn't find a source that could give us details for…
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