YouTube boosts stickiness with search topic suggestions
YouTube is trialing a new service called ‘Topics on Search’, giving viewers examples of related searches.
New tool lets UK brands track competitors’ SEO and paid search strategies
UK Brands can analyse and track the search engine optimisation (SEO) and paid search strategies of their competitors thanks to the new UK version of the search analytics software service from Searchmetrics.
The battle for your data: Facebook and Google in GMail contacts row
Rivalry between Google and Facebook is intensifying, with the world’s two biggest internet companies locking horns over the export of user’s contact data from GMail to Facebook, with Google even encouraging its users to file a complaint against the social network.
YouTube debuts new mobile ad formats as videos on-the-move soars
Three in four (75%) of YouTube Mobile users say that their mobile is the number one device they use to watch YouTube videos, according to new stats issued by Google.
Google denies rumours of building Facebook rival ‘Google Me’
Google has denied building a social network to compete with Facebook, despite months of rumours that the internet giant was working on a new social platform ‘Google Me’.
Ask ditches search for community answers
Ask.com is cutting 130 engineering jobs and outsourcing its search technology, as the internet icon finally concedes that it cannot compete with Google and Bing in the search market.
Right to reply: Google’s preview system- The Marketer’s Friend and Foe
After a testing period in the USA, Google’s preview system, ‘Quick View’, has recently been popping up in the UK. When a search is conducted on Google, as well as being able to view the related search results, the searcher, whilst scrolling through each, is privy to a full miniature pop-up preview of the related … [Read more…]
Google integrates contextual AdSense ads into AdMob
Google is bringing its contextual AdSense ads to its AdMob platform, the mobile advertising technology it bought in 2009.
Google debuts ‘Instant Previews’ search tool
Google has launched a new tool that allows searchers to see previews of websites before clicking on them in the results page.
Google debuts 'Instant Previews' search tool
Google has launched a new tool that allows searchers to see previews of websites before clicking on them in the results page.