Monthly archive for March 2009

Google Release “Services for Websites”

Monday, den 30. March 2009

Google have announced the launch of a new service for Web Hosting companies which enables users to insert Google Products into their website to increase rankings with ease.
The following is what Google had to say about the launch: “Today, we’re releasing Google Services for Websites, a few more tools that your hosting company can now [...]

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24.1% of searches sending traffic to Google News are celebrity related

Thursday, den 26. March 2009

According to a report by Hitwise, 24.1% of searches sending traffic to Google News were celebrity related. NMA had this to say:

“The report tracked over 260,000 search terms that sent traffic to the site in the 12 weeks leading up to 21 March 2009 and found the most searched for term was ‘Jade Goody’ which accounted [...]

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Google slowing growth? Or getting ready to pounce?

Tuesday, den 24. March 2009

Google hasn’t acquired another company for 6 months now! Have they gone cold turkey? Seeing as they have done 30 deals since 2005 it is unusual – especially as there are most likely some deals out there… Rumours are circulating that they have their eye on Expedia and maybe even Twitter… With a $16 Billion [...]

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Google Street View runs into problems in the UK

Monday, den 23. March 2009

What do naked toddlers, Cherie Blair’s living room and a guy throwing up have in common? I really wish this was funnier – but they have all been captured by Google’s Street View recently launched in the UK – and have subsequently been blacked out. Privacy stalwarts are up in arms with Google’s new initiative, [...]

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Local Search still has a long way to go for Google

Monday, den 23. March 2009

Here’s an interesting article saying what we always knew here at Tug. Google is struggling with Local Search as they have less than 10% of local information from Small & Medium Businesses. Unless Google has access to a local business address and their products and services from a digital source (such as a website) they [...]

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Yahoo Release New Targeting Enhancements

Wednesday, den 18. March 2009

To catchup with Google and MSN, Yahoo have released some major new targeting features to it’s search marketing platform. These include Ad Scheduling (similar to that of Google), Demographic Targeting (similar to that of MSN) and Geographic Targeting (similar to that of Google and MSN.) Here’s a quote from the Yahoo Search Marketing Blog:
 ”We try [...]

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GrandCentral Reopens as Google Voice

Monday, den 16. March 2009

Google have launched their newly aquired voice service (formely known as GrandCentral.) This service is only currently available to previous GrandCentral users but should be opened up shorly to Google users. Google had the following to say:
“The new application improves the way you use your phone. You can get transcripts of your voicemail (see the [...]

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Google Announce Internet Based Advertising & Controversy Begins

Thursday, den 12. March 2009

Google recently announced the launch of Internet based advertising, this is a new platform of advertising for Google which will allow Adwords advertisers to target ads based on the users interests and sites visited. The service will start in beta, and if successful moved into every Adwords customers inventory. Here’s a small quote from the [...]

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Google AdSense Introduce Expandable Ads

Wednesday, den 11. March 2009

Last week the Google AdSense team announced the launch of expandable Ads, this will allow advertisers (third party) to place large ads on the Google Content Network, these ads will expand once clicked on and will allow advertisers to add both videos, links and images to a single ad. Currently this is only available in [...]

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Spotify Sign New Major Brands

Wednesday, den 11. March 2009

The new free music delivery service; Spotify, have recently signed new brand deals with big brands including Nike, H&M and Carling. Spotify only launched recently and has quickly expanded with a massive user-base of over 1 million users worldwide. NMA Reported on this new development at the Spotify camp, belows a short extract:
“Nike, Ray-Ban [...]

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