Online Marketing News Archive

We have often been guilty of claiming that the hype surrounding Twitter is unjustified and that the vast majority of what you read on Twitter is complete gibberish.
Whilst we still believe that this is often the case, it is Friday and we are going to eat a massive slice of humble pie and launch our … Read full article>

Earlier this week Yahoo! revealed its latest move in the ’social game’ and announced that just like Google and Bing, it has also struck a deal with Twitter to integrate real-time tweets with its search engine results, something that Google has been doing since the end of 2009.
However, unlike Google and Bing, Yahoo! will not … Read full article>

Perhaps one of the questions that we hear most these days is how businesses should embrace social media.
We have migrated from "We need a website" to "We need to get more people to our website" and are now firmly into "crikey - can you help me make sense of all this social media stuff and … 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>

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>

Facebook is now allowing those with Facebook pages, (not individual profile pages) to now simultaneously update their Facebook and Twitter pages simultaneously via Facebook.
According to Facebook, they have received many queries about the concept of integrating Facebook and Twitter, as users want their content to be easily distributed to all their followers on both Facebook … Read full article>

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 … Read full article>

Last week, we commented on how Twitter plans to improve it’s search feature and ultimately become more like Google, but it appears that Google is thinking about adding micro-blogging it’s search and becoming more like Twitter.
It was implied in an interview with Google’s CEO last week, that they are planning on jumping on the social … Read full article>

It was reported earlier this week, by News.com, that Twitter is to improve is current search facility, making it more effective and useful to it’s users and even make it a competitor for the mighty Google Search.
The current Twitter search feature simply searches the text feeds that are posted by users allowing searchers to see … Read full article>

In recent years, the growth of Social Networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. has been phenomenal and it is still continuing to grow.
Across the globe, the audience for social media services has risen 25% between August 2007 and August 2008, according to comScore.
Facebook, the mother of social networking sites, is reportedly on track … Read full article>