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It’s Christmas time: Free Wi-Fi at airports

Google is offering free Wi-Fi on airports across all the US from now till the 15 January 2010. It is currently available at 47 airports. A “cool gift” from the search engine which is helping raising money for local non-profit organisations. When connecting to the Wi-Fi network, you have the

TweetIn = LinkedIn + Twitter

Twitter and LinkedIn announced their partnership today, this will help bring tweets to LinkedIn. New features will be rolled out the next couple of days where LinkedIn account holders can tweet their LinkedIn status and vice versa (Tweets will be sent to LinkedIn accounts in real-time). Reid Hoffmn and Biz

Is the BBC really paying Google to improve its search rankings?

When speaking about the BBC, I immediately see a huge company with a massive turnover and a very big marketing budget. With a guaranteed £3.5 billion revenue each year, the BBC holds a strong position in the market obviously, making its competitors struggle. It is said that the BBC has

'Halal' Search Engine Launched for 'Safe' Internet Browsing

Last week, I came accross an intriguing article with the title : HALAL Search Engine Launched….and I kept on reading. The Search Engine targets the muslim e-community that surfs the World Wide Web and would come accross ‘haram content’, hence the name of ‘halal’. To clarify both terms, Halal is

Do you need unique content to target Ireland ?

I was reading a very interesting article from Search Engine Roundtable news archive dicussing the geotargeting of Ireland…which made me think. When it comes to UK and Irleand, UK companies tend to place their UK site on a ccTLD then add some localised flavour of the english words (such as

The World Wide Lexicon Project – a clever toolbar

Have you ever wondered what the Japanese, Arabic or even Turkish press are saying in the news today ? Well it may now be possible for the monoglot community to “read” and “understand” different languages. Indeed, the World Wide Lexicon Project (as reported by the NewScientist) is essentially a simple