Siobhan recently reported on Interflora’s Google penalty for manipulating search results with paid links. It seems that not long (11 days to be precise) after the penalty was issued it has been as good as lifted. Prior to penalisation it ranked in the top three for major flower related terms such …
#Keepthechange
A new service allowing people to ‘pay-by-tweet’ has been launched as a collaborative effort between Twitter and American Express. Twitter users can pay for things using just a hash-tag. This means that users can buy things without ever leaving the site. All cardholders have to do is verify their Twitter accounts and they …
Google in Europe
Following on from my recent post about Google’s market share in the UK, here are a few figures from a few of our European neighbours. The figures are staggering, highlighting the search giants complete domination of the European search market.If you thought Google does well in the UK with over 91%, you haven’t seen …
Google’s UK Market Share Drops (to just under 90%)
Google’s share of the UK search market has fallen to its lowest level in five years, as users move to Bing and Yahoo. In December 2012 Google’s share of the market stood at 88.35%. December 2011 was considerably higher at 91.15%. In the same time period Bing enjoyed a 1.15% increase in …
Google to Invest $1 Billion in UK Headquarters
Global giants Google have just announced they are to invest $1 billion dollars into it’s new UK headquarters. They have purchased a 2.4 acre plot of land in London’s King Cross Development where they plan to build a 1 million-square-foot-office. Google’s Vice President for Northern and Central Europe Matt Brittin …
Facebook Adds Search Function (Almost)
Facebook has recently announced a search function addition to its social network. This much anticipated addition hasn’t come as a surprise but its not exactly the Google-rivalling search engine that many were expecting. Instead its an engine that searches content shared by your Facebook friends. ‘Graph Search’, which isn’t out …
Christmas E-commerce Stats
Last month I posted about the relatively new phenomenon known as ‘Cyber Monday‘, which sees millions of shoppers take to the net to spend their hard earned currency before Christmas. In that post I reported on how Cyber Monday was the busiest online shopping day in UK history. This is no longer the case according to …
A Gangnam Christmas
Fans of the K-Pop smash hit ‘Gangnam Style’ by Psy were delighted earlier. The strange, but somehow entertaining, video has already smashed a number of records but earlier today it became the first video to reach one billion views. This is a truly remarkable feat, especially when you consider the fact that it has …
Cyber Monday – What Happened
A few days ago Siobhan wrote about ‘Mega Monday‘ or ‘Cyber Monday’ as it is also known. It is said to be the busiest online shopping day of the year, and is a web version of ‘black Friday’ (which sees shoppers go wild over the best deals, often leading to mini riots and people …
Top Google Trends for 2012
There’s only one month left of 2012 so I thought it would be interesting to provide a few fact and figures from Google Trends. All of the below results are for 2012 only, so they indicate what people have been searching for in the last 11 months. Worldwide Web Search …
