Monthly archive for March 2011

Google Adds a Like Button!

Thursday, den 31. March 2011

Yes, Google have announced the launch of a new like button! The new button is to be known as the +1 button and will be put along side search results on Google. This means people can either publicly or privately like a search result which is sure to improve your site’s click through rate on [...]

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SEO: How does hosting influence your Google Rankings

Wednesday, den 30. March 2011

Many people wonder how much influence the hosting server has over their site ranking positions. There are discussions about the difference in running your site on dedicated servers, shared hosting with poor quality sites, whether our sites should be run by local servers if our business is local or foreign servers if we are targeting [...]

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Negative comments and reviews on the Internet can increase loss of customers by 27%

Tuesday, den 29. March 2011

Depending of the industry, between 11% and 27% of the loss of existing customers is due to the influence of the comments and reviews found online. Good brand management could increase your new customers by 37%. The study was conducted for the technology, telecommunications and insurance sector. It proves that comments and reviews on customer [...]

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Bing Updates Mobile Search Experience

Thursday, den 24. March 2011

Bing has updated their mobile search experience on HTML5 enabled mobile smartphone browsers. Some of the key features include: – Transit Directions and Real-Time Transit – Image Search with sliders and orientation support – Shopping improves access to shopping questions answered, comparison shop, and discover product details and user reviews – Added Weather Autosuggest and [...]

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Yahoo Instant – Yahoo takes on Google with Yahoo Search Direct

Thursday, den 24. March 2011

Yesterday the 23rd of March saw Blake Irving, Yahoo’s Chief technology officer, unveil Yahoo Search Direct Yahoo’s competition to Google Instant.   According to a post on Yahoo’s corporate blog the new feature is currently in Beta and ”predicts search results as fast as a person types, character by character, and presents those results dynamically, generating [...]

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Mom, can I work for Google?

Wednesday, den 23. March 2011

A study conducted by Universum in the United States among young people looking for jobs has concluded that the preferred company for them to develop their careers is Google. 25% chose this company, while 13% chose Apple. Walt Disney, the Department of State and Amazon completed the top five list. Universum presented the survey to [...]

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Firefox 4 destroys Internet Explorer 9 on its first day

Wednesday, den 23. March 2011

The long-awaited Mozilla browser has recived on its first day millions of  download requests for  its latest version, surpassing by twice Internet Explorer’s number in its first 24 hours. The release of Firefox 4 has been delayed numerous times with the developers trying to release the new version as optimsed and bug-free as possible. Mozilla [...]

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YouTube buys a service that enhances video quality

Wednesday, den 16. March 2011

YouTube has secured the services of Green Parrot Pictures, this company has worked in the past on film projects like; The Lord of the Rings or X-Men and they have advanced technology that allows them to improve the quality of video productions. By doing this YouTube tries to increase the playback speed while consuming less [...]

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Twitter increases its security

Wednesday, den 16. March 2011

Two weeks after Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter account was hacked, for no other reason than to expose how easy it is to hack a twitter account through a WiFi network, twitter decided to introduce a new default security measure for all accounts: HTTPS. Secure connections over HTTPS are essential if you want to access social networks [...]

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Final version Internet Explorer 9 now available for download

Tuesday, den 15. March 2011

Microsoft seized the opportunity of being in one of the major technology trade shows in the world, SXSW, to release to the world the final version of Internet Explorer 9. A browser quite different to the competition, which tries show on the PC a similar structure to the mobile navigation. After 6 months of beta [...]

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