Chinese war guru, Sun Tzu, who wrote the “Art of War” would have been shaking his head in dismay at the launch of Google Buzz earlier this week. Whilst Wall Street was rubbing its hands in glee at the prospect of a ComScore announcement showing that Bing had gained market
Next week is the Search Engine Strategies London conference and expo at the Business Design Centre in Islington, which I will be participating in for roughly the fifth or sixth time – in fact I cannot quite remember which one was the first I attended or even the first I
Hurrah, the UK economy is out of recession. Boo, the UK economy is recovering so weakly from the global recession that it may be some time before things truly start to get better. Conclusion? Many experts say that Britain – and the US – really have to do better in
When Google said it was adding “real time” search to its platform, most saw this as a logical addition which made sense. Few recognised the pandora’s box which was about to open enabling ‘reputation management’ to move centrestage giving reputation managers everywhere a business filip which fully justified the investment
Because of what I do – specialising in international and multilingual search that is – for years people have been explaining to me the importance of the ‘semantic web’ and that I should be getting involved. Many thought it had something to do with linguistics (including me). Essentially I saw
Next week I will be speaking at the Search Engine Strategies Chicago panel, “New Exporters: How Search Marketing Can Be Used to Build Overseas Trade” panel at the Search Engine Strategies conference at the Hilton hotel in Chicago. This is a first time panel and represents an exciting new approach
German flag-carrier Lufthansa has announced that it is to offer full web access via a wifi system and a satellite connection for all passengers in all flights and classes during the coming year. This will put pressure on more competitors to do the same.
The AT Institute has just published a report at Xitimonitor showing that on average 53% of visits to UK websites have been generated by online marketing campaigns. The UK is followed by Spain 45%, Germany 40% and then just 29% in France. In the UK the greatest number of visits
Twitter announced via its blog that it is adding support for French, Italian, German and Spanish to the languages supported by its interface. Until now the system has only been available in English and Japanese. In its blog post it describes these languages as “Commonly referred to using the acronym
WebCertain, where I work, is often classified as being in the North East of England and though it’s actually in Yorkshire, the business does have clients in the North East. Today, the UK’s Telegraph is touting a story entitled “People in North East are most timid internet users’. Having worked