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...
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...
Are ranking reports dead? Are they slipping into measurement obscurity? Do they still have a place in the ‘monthly report’? I recently had a conversation with a client regarding target setting, I paraphrase but it went along these lines ‘these rankings are great, we should be setting targets for where...
Not even a week ago I posted that I expected much more innovation from Google into 2009...it's not even the end of January and already there has been something to wet our appetite! Coming to a internet connect near you is the Google Drive (Gdrive) - and this could be the most anticipated release...
Predictions abound at this time of year, and once again we hear it will be the year of the mobile web – and therefore mobile search - but this time I believe it. Figures released by Nielsen late last year suggest that mobile web use is growing eight times as fast as the conventional PC internet. Finally...
Google took a slight dent in their pride in 2008, tales of misuse of data, sliding share prices and a failed partnership with its adversary Yahoo had its infamous PR machine spinning faster than a hamster’s wheel. However it hasn’t deterred their innovative engineers and this past year we welcomed the...
I’m off to Seattle tonight and then San Jose for the 10th Anniversary Search Engine Strategies conference on Sunday. Looking forward to catching up on all the latest news and views on the search industry at what is billed as the biggest search marketing conference ever. I will of course be blogging for...
