Blog - April/2009

Are we Seeing a Tech Bubble?

Zuckerberg Facebook stocks

With only days before Facebook goes public as a company with a valuation of $100 billion US, I can't help think of another promising social media platform which helped change the way we communicated with each other, MySpace.

At the height of it's social influence MySpace was bought for $580 million US and then sold for $35 million US 6...

Yahoo CEO Looks Forward

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has come out all guns blazing in her thoughts about the future of Yahoo after the first quarter financial results for 2009 were released. Included in these were some restructuring plans and areas where Yahoo aims to improve...

Posted 3 years 3 weeks ago by Sarah

Industry News
Search Engines
Yahoo

First Ever Records Drop for Google

This past week Google announced its first quarter-on-quarter losses as the worldwide recession finally hit the search engine giants. This loss is the first of any kind for the company, but still shows an increase from the same quarter in 2008. It...

Posted 3 years 3 weeks ago by Sarah

Google
Search Engines

Welcome Back Jeeves

It may only be the fourth most popular search engine, but Ask.com’s butler symbol, Jeeves, has remained one of the more iconic symbols in the search in recent years, so much so that the people at Ask have decided to bring the butler back to its UK...

Posted 3 years 3 weeks ago by Sarah

Search Engines

Courting Twitter

Microsoft and Google are preparing to do battle again in an effort to strike a deal with Twitter involving their search service. The All Things Digital website reported that the two major companies are vying with each other for control of what...

Posted 3 years 1 month ago by Sarah

Google
Microsoft
Social Media
Twitter
Twitter related

Google Increases Search Lead Again

With results for search engine usage just reported from Hitwise there is another show of impressive numbers from Google. They have improved their lead over their competitors and increased their own numbers from the same time a year ago. The...

Posted 3 years 1 month ago by Sarah

Google
Search Engines

Google Taking Search Local

Google has unveiled its new service to aid searchers who are looking for specific requests in their local area. If you type in the word restaurant or pub then Google will automatically try to predict where you live and give you the best results for...

Posted 3 years 1 month ago by Sarah

Google
Mobile Marketing
Search Engines

Yahoo Launches Improved Mobile Website

After announcing it at the Mobile Congress event in Barcelona back in February Yahoo made its mobile website and iPhone app available for this past week. Yahoo has managed to integrate its oneSearch, Go, oneConnect and onePlace together to...

Posted 3 years 1 month ago by Sarah

Mobile Marketing
Yahoo

Google cutbacks

In these times of recession and job cuts you might get the feeling that things don’t look good when Google announces job losses. Google has recently said that they are going to cut just under 200 jobs from their worldwide sales and marketing teams...

Posted 3 years 1 month ago by Sarah

Google

Microsoft to throw 100 Million dollars at search market

Not seeming to be making any headway in the search market business, Microsoft has decided that is enough is enough, and is going to throw their chequebook at the problem. Looking at possibly changing the branding of its search and the way in...

Posted 3 years 1 month ago by Sarah

Microsoft
Search Engines

Search on Twitter

So Twitter is embracing the search engine after all, in a sense anyway. It may well end up being more of a discovery engine but the people at Twitter believe that they have found an “awesome” design that captures the minds of the Twitter public....

Posted 3 years 1 month ago by Sarah

Search Engines
Social Media
Twitter

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