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Google Is U.K.’s Most Popular Brand
The Superbrands Council, which is a consortium of experts in various fields such as marketing, advertising and media carried out a survey to judge which are the most popular brands in the U.K. They compiled a list of over 1,000 well known brands in the market, and then conducted a survey across 2,200 consumers, to rate these brands. More »
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 in Marketing, Google.
Blog Readership In U.K. Growing Faster
That blogs are becoming increasingly popular is obvious enough.
What is not quite so well known, is, how much the viewership for blogs has grown in recent years. More »
Posted on June 13th, 2008 in Blogs.
3 UK Launches Ad Funded Mobile Music Video Service
UK mobile provider 3 made a deal with Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Rhythm New Media to launch a free music video service to customers of 3 in the UK. The service is offered to customers with no data charges and is funded solely through advertising. More »
Posted on April 9th, 2008 in Mobile.
Google Launches Mobile Universal Search and UK Finance Site
Google is going all out to increase the scope for mobile based Web search. After receiving encouraging results in the U.S. they introduced their improved mobile search service in the U.K., Germany, France and Canada last week. They are also laying out the basic infrastructure for new mobile applications, as reported by BBC. More »
Posted on February 4th, 2008 in Mobile, Google.
Google Checkout Overtakes Paypal In UK
A recent report from Hitwise found that traffic to Google Checkout has overtaken PayPal in the first two weeks of December and has held its lead since then. The number of downstream visitors from Google Checkout has also grown rapidly, which might indicate that while people visit the site they don’t necessarily buy using Google Checkout. More »
Posted on December 28th, 2007 in Google.
AOL Mobile Promises Users A Near Desktop Experience
AOL Mobile launched this week in the UK after a successful 4-month beta period in the US. AOL claims that the service will offer a “real web” user experience with advanced functionality through its Search, Email and Web Surf features. More »
Posted on November 28th, 2007 in Mobile.
SEO Quality Assurance Checklist
Andrew Shotland at the Local SEO Guide blog has written a very interesting post following up the recent release of the Google Ranking Factors poll. In his post he argues that perhaps the most important factor to determine Google ranking is an overall quality assurance check of the website that covers simple things such as the robots.txt file. More »
Posted on October 11th, 2007 in SEO.
Most Popular Websites In UK and France
Google leads the pack once again this month, as the most popular website in both France and the UK. ComScore’s latest report tracked the top Internet properties visited by Internet users in the UK and France during the month of August 2007. There are no surprises in the top 10 either side of the channel. Facebook, though, is rising in popularity very quickly in the UK and might become one of the top 10 visited sites very soon. More »
Posted on October 5th, 2007 in Multilingual, Internet.
Ask Mobile Set For UK Launch By Christmas
Cool new features included in Ask Mobile GPS were reviewed in a Search Daily News article earlier this summer. The system is currently available only to US mobile Internet users. However, NMA magazine reports this week that Ask plans to make their mobile search service available in the UK by Christmas 2007. More »
Posted on September 20th, 2007 in Mobile.
£2.2 Billion Spent On Search Engine Marketing in 2007
UK companies are expected to spend £2.2 billion on search engine marketing this year, up 58% from 2006, according to E-consultancy’s SEM Buyer’s Guide (2007). More »
Posted on September 7th, 2007 in SEM.
