So, it seems that BING is making an impression in the US – comScore reporting as much as a 3% increase in the two weeks since its launch. It will be interesting to see if this growth is sustained, or rather whether the £100million investment rolls on and on to fuel the hype of the new ‘Decision Engine...
It's been a big month for 'decision engines'. First we had the build-up and launch of Wolfram-Alpha as mentioned a few weeks ago and now we have the launch of Microsoft's own decision engine called ' Bing '. Bing went live last week, a couple of days early. The earlier-than-planned...
I thought I’d make use of some quiet time in the office today so I finally got to watching a series of videos that Matt Cutts posted on Google's YouTube webmaster channel in Feb 09. Sometimes it's just too much of an effort to read, either on screen or in print (this blog aside of course:) So...
So we hear last week of Google’s rumoured approach to buy Twitter. People in the office of none Search Engine Marketing breed have asked how they can justify such high expenditure for what is ostensibly a non-commercial social media product. Well this could be a very close snap shot of the future: Like...
Jon Beeston from Efficient Frontier has discovered the Google may be planning to offer advertisers a Cost-Per-Acquisition model to gain leads from people searching for financial products... On his blog Jon was wily enough to get some screenshots of what's obviously a test across a small percentage...
Gotta be careful here, but The Guardian reports that The Big G will end their agency subsidy at the end of 2008. Damian Burns, Head of Agency Relations at the media giant and someone who can drink Guinness prolifically, says there's been a "mixed reaction." I gather the news has not been...
