By Gareth Owen Google is going to change the way it displays search results in order to ‘answer questions’ rather than provide a list of sites that might contain the answers. That’s good, hopefully...
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Top 5 tips for starting a career in PPC…and no, you don’t need a degree in digital marketing
By John Barham EU bailouts. Stagnating political action. UK unemployment at a 17 year high. 2012 is not looking good for those recently out of university who want to grab themselves a rung on...
7 Steps to Prepare For the Search Alliance in the UK
By Duncan Parry, Search Engine Watch, 27th January 2012 After a year’s delay, Microsoft adCenter will start to power the PPC results on Yahoo UK in Q2 of 2012. Discussion of its potential for success aside, here...
5 Things That Should Happen in Digital in 2012, But Probably Won’t
By Duncan Parry, Search Engine Watch, January 6th 2012 Predictions are popping up everywhere as the New Year begins. Instead of producing another list of things that are likely to happen, here are the five...
What Google+ Means for Search
We know what you’re thinking: How can I spend more time on social networks? Surely that question was buzzing around the Googleplex this year, as the internet monolith prepped for its fourth foray into social...
Did Microsoft Finally Unlock Google’s Search Dominance?
Yesterday’s announcement that Bing is incorporating Facebook data into its results queries represents the latest salvo in the ongoing search wars. This time, the firepower has powerful repercussions. So, last night Bing announced the next...
Social SEO – a Mini-Trial
As a follow up to all of the noise generated in the SEO industry by the frank admissions of both Google and Bing that Social Media elements are part of their ‘relevance factors’ for search,...
Google and Bing confirm ‘Social’ ranking signals
Thanks to some great investigative journalism, and a degree of open-ness from the two major search engines, we now have a degree of confirmation that social media links and mentions are indeed part of the...
Will the Bing & Yahoo Search Alliance Succeed?
By Duncan Parry, Search Engine Watch, July 30, 2010 The Yahoo-Bing search alliance is gathering momentum. Watching this coverage from the U.K., where Google has close to 90 percent market share, I can’t help asking: will...
Bing and Mashable create Twitter Trend Maps
Bing announced on their blog (http://mashable.com/bing-local-twitter-trends/) today they have created maps with Mashable that show which topics are trending on Twitter in locations around the world. Whilst much of the content on Twitter is the...
Now you can ask Bing for directions
We’ve been very impressed by Bing’s response to our previous post. Within a couple of hours, we’d received a personal response from Bing thanking us for our feedback and acknowledging that ‘the result returned could...
Don’t ask Bing for directions…
According to several articles posted today, Bing’s TV campaign in the UK will feature ‘a woman seeking directions to Euston station.’ http://www.nma.co.uk/news/microsoft-to-run-first-tv-ad-campaign-for-bing/3010829.article http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/08/microsoft-bing-tv-ads-google Unfortunately, the top result on Bing for ‘directions to Euston Station’ currently...