TMP Directional Marketing have conducted a survey that for the first time has revealed that more searches for local businesses were now made online than through the Yellow Pages in the US. (more…)
An article in the New York Times has commented on how Google has recently indexed its one trillionth web address but still has issues that it can’t yet grasp. Namely the Deep Web.
The NY Times reports that the major search engines still have trouble providing satisfying answers to exact questions that may be posed by searchers. When posting a question such as “the best fare from New York to London next Thursday?” traditional search engines find it hard to offer a suitable answer. (more…)
The developments of the mobile web are akin to those of the Desktop Web back in 1998 according to research conducted by Jakob Nielson in his alert box web page at www.useit.com.
Testing mobile websites through various means he found that they failed on most of the tests he worked on. For starters the sites tested were found to have very large pages with large images or long pages that were impossible to see clearly on the smaller screens of mobiles. (more…)
In another step to shake up their services and place them in a better position to achieve a higher percentage of internet search market share Yahoo has decided to scrap its MyWeb service.
In service since 2005 the MyWeb application has proved popular with users helping them to make things a lot easier in saving valuable information. (more…)
It’s a welcome sight to see Google upholding the “do as I say and not as I do” philosophy of search engine optimisation [SEO] best practices. After news of Google Japan being caught paying for blogger reviews in an attempt to improve their PageRank position they announced that Google.co.jp PageRank was now ~5 instead of ~9. (more…)
Should the Queen be brushing up on her Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) procedures? It seems no one is immune to an SEO review these days.
The Daily Telegraph recently reviewed the Royal website for best SEO practices and found that they were able to pick a lot of holes in it. (more…)
Whilst probably not a surprise to anyone that uses internet search the figures just released by Neilson online show that Google has once again pulled further away from its competitors.
Of the 9 million plus searches that took place in January 2009 in the United States nearly 6 million of them happened on Google, this is more than double those with Yahoo and MSN Live Search combined who were second and third respectively. Following a long way behind those two was AOL Search, Ask.com and My Web Search. (more…)
After conquering Earth with their various applications Google has now taken to the high seas and has launched Google Ocean. It features underwater views of the earth’s oceans in 3D with historic imagery to give a complete feeling of life underwater.
Working with organisations such as the National Geographic Survey and US Navy, and driven by a care of the environment Google Ocean will provide a greater understanding of the oceans for scientists and enthusiasts alike. �
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Then Microsoft’s Live Search has a new application which maybe what you’re looking for. If you have Internet Explorer 8 you can now get Live Search instant answers on subjects such as the weather, the stock market and movie times without clicking off the home page. (more…)
If it could happen to the Romans and the British then I suppose there is no reason why the Google internet empire shouldn’t fall one day. But before you get too excited this was a thought put forward by the research company Forrester Research after a recent survey on web users search habits and not an actual possibility. Not any time soon anyway. (more…)
