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Facebook Dominates UK Mobile Web
12th February 2010
A recent survey by the GSMA shows that Facebook now dominates the mobile internet traffic in the U.K. More »
British Consumers Hooked To The Internet
8th October 2009
The image the world has about the stiff upper lip of the British is changing. They have now become very interactive and sociable. According to a report released by uSwitch.com, the average Britisher is now spending almost 30 hours a week online. More »
Twitter To The Defense Of NHS
14th August 2009
Whatever the Americans (Republicans in particular) may think of the UK’s National Health Service, the Brits obviously love it – so much that when someone criticised it, they tweeted enough in defense of the NHS to bring Twitter down. More »
Did Twitter Really Destroy Bruno?
16th July 2009
The success or failure of a movie is traditionally judged by its box office collections over the very first weekend of its release. However in the case of the movie Bruno, some believe its success is determined by the nature of tweets about the movie. More »
Phorm Whips Up Privacy Storm
5th May 2009
The new online technology used by Phorm has created quite a stir and has upset advocates of user privacy. All the negative publicity has the company up in arms and representative for Phorm (who has requested not to be named!) has replied to our original post. His feedback has been shared here. More »
UK Government Plans To Monitor All Internet Use
1st May 2009
U.K. police forces have asked all communications firms, including internet service providers and mobile phone companies, to keep records of all Internet contact between people. More »
UK Housewives Spending More Leisure Time Online
5th January 2009
The results of a recent survey conducted by global market information group TNS reveals an interesting pattern, about free time spent online, by users across different countries. More »
Google Is U.K.’s Most Popular Brand
23rd July 2008
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 »
Blog Readership In U.K. Growing Faster
13th June 2008
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 »
3 UK Launches Ad Funded Mobile Music Video Service
9th April 2008
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 »
Google Launches Mobile Universal Search and UK Finance Site
4th February 2008
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 »
Google Checkout Overtakes Paypal In UK
28th December 2007
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 »
AOL Mobile Promises Users A Near Desktop Experience
28th November 2007
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 »
SEO Quality Assurance Checklist
11th October 2007
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 »
Most Popular Websites In UK and France
5th October 2007
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 »
Ask Mobile Set For UK Launch By Christmas
20th September 2007
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 »
£2.2 Billion Spent On Search Engine Marketing in 2007
7th September 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 »
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