Just a few days ago we were having a discussion in the office about Bing and its seemingly terminal beta status... Following a bit of a debate regarding the rationale for leaving something in beta in one market whilst you launch in another (in summary: it enables a test-and-rollout approach for both...
Online commands respect : Another IAB Ad Spend report, another milestone for online – this time the big one We released the IAB Ad Spend results today, with the record breaking news that not only has Ad Spend grown again – as it has every half year since we launched the survey in 1998 – but we have finally...
For years I’ve known about my addiction to site stats. Watching that trend line fluctuate, hoping for an upward curve. Now I’m willing to step forward and come clean. I’m not alone with this affliction; the world is covered with web statsaholics. Alisa Bowman , Jason Jaeger and Geoffrey Golden being...
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...
If you work in digital media you'd have to have been living under a rock for the past few weeks to not have heard about Microsoft's re-branded search offering, Bing . So called because Microsoft believes it represents "the sound of found" (yes, quite), it seems everyone loves to talk...
In technology, the only constant is exponential change. It is remarkable, therefore, to consider that one of its key sectors, search, has changed little during the past 10 years. While it has evolved to cope with multimedia content and improved as algorithms have become more powerful, the presentation...
Back in the day we marvelled at ‘search’. It was like questioning the all-seeing internet oracle and being granted a whole world of knowledge. How we laughed when it threw up weird fuzzy-logic responses. Remember the rumour that the world would end if you typed ‘google’ into Google!? Not any more. Now...
