Monthly archive for June 2010

Google’s not Evil but they’re pi**ing off China & now Pakistan

Tuesday, den 29. June 2010

Today I read that Google is on the brink of losing their Internet Content Provider license in China: Google fights for China business Wait I thought they were trying to get out of China? What do they care? Oh right over 1Billion consumers and the fastest growing interent community in the world… Lets face it - just [...]

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Have we thus entered the era of “Facebook SEO”?

Monday, den 28. June 2010

The people running Facebook are an ambitious crew; they see Facebook as a successor to Google in many respects. In fact many of the executives used to work at Google, including CTO Bret Taylor, COO Sheryl Sandberg, Advertising VP David Fischer and Communications VP Elliot Schrage, among others. However as a search property Facebook has, [...]

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YouTube Wins Court Case against Viacom

Friday, den 25. June 2010

Google have announced that they have won their court battle against Viacom in which Viacom was looking to sue Google for $1 billion for copyright infringement. The YouTube team blogged the following: “Today, the court granted our motion for summary judgment in Viacom’s lawsuit with YouTube. This means that the court has decided that YouTube [...]

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Chrome OS Adding “Polish”

Thursday, den 24. June 2010

TechCrunch have reported that the Google developers have began to polish up their new OS to get it looking nice and shiny! They have said that in particular it’s looking much more cut down and cleaner. They also have a number of brand new features including a new options panel, a new side bar option [...]

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Are Google Copying Bing? Heck!

Thursday, den 24. June 2010

As Microsoft launched its Bing Entertainment search hub, look who else might be rolling out a music service, tied in with its search engine of its own. There’s a  rumor in the ranks which was started a couple of days before the Bing Entertainment launch and has since been jumped on by the whole damn world. If [...]

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In tweets we trust

Thursday, den 24. June 2010

A recent study by Omnicom found that 75% of the people they surveyed  said they put more trust in companies that microblog – sending short messages and updates via Facebook status or Tweets. When it comes to crisis management and engagement, faced lately by BP, Toyota and Johnson & Johnson to name a few, it’s [...]

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AdWords Campaign Experiment – BETA

Thursday, den 24. June 2010

An important part of running a successful PPC campaign is the constant testing of bids, adcopy, keywords etc. However, it is sometimes  difficult to know 100% whether the changes in results that happened during your test were specifically down to the changes you made. For example, if you increased your bids by 10p and at [...]

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We’re Suing Everyone on Twitter

Tuesday, den 22. June 2010

 A group of big banks asked a judge to force a financial news website called The Fly On The Wall (Theflyonthewall.com) to stop posting immediate updates on analyst research from several major banks. And they won the court case??? In light of this we’re suing everyone on Twitter!

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The Yahoo / MSN Transition Explained (US/Canada)

Tuesday, den 22. June 2010

The Yahoo/MSN merger sent out a powerpoint presentation to US advertisers this week, detailing how the transition will work in the US/Canada. This includes a timeline for the changeover and a graphic on how the two companies will work together. The benfits they give are outlined here: They have also siad that the best 3 [...]

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Google US Search Share Rises Back to 72%

Tuesday, den 22. June 2010

Hitwise have released their montly search share statistics for May 2010. Google have risen back to 72% after losing search share to Yahoo and Bing, Yahoo accounted for 14.43% and Bing trailed in last place with 9.23%. Both Yahoo and Bing dropped very slightly from last month which attributed to Googles increase. See below for [...]

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