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  • 244,237 Germans request to have their homes blurred on Streetview

    Oct252010
    streetview-germany

    A quarter of a million Germans have requested that Google Street View blur any images of their houses. The German government allowed its citizens a window of opportunity to make any such requests as part of the conditions for allowing the search engine giants access to the nation’s streets for their eye-level mapping service. Google [...]

    Microsoft close the gap on ‘Social Searching’

    Oct152010
    bing-social-search

    Industry giants Microsoft have made the first steps in integrating web search, with social networking. The Microsoft owned ‘Bing’, a search engine ranked most popular behind Google, and Yahoo have begun to offer US based users the opportunity to be view webpage’s, products and other interests that are ‘liked’ by their Facebook friends. The news [...]

    Facebook overtakes Google in US

    Sep152010
    facebook-google

    Facebook is now the most used website in the USA after it overtook Google for the month of August. According to comScore figures which were released on Friday, US Netizens spent approximately 10% of their total web browsing time on the social networking site, which has faced a recent threat to its online networking dominance [...]

    Google Instant

    Sep092010
    google-instant

    Google are again set to raise the bar with search engine development when they release Google Instant next week. Instant aims to display up to the second results as the user types, modifying the results as further characters are added to the search bar. Google have described it as “search at the speed of thought”. [...]

    Google Chrome for Mac

    Dec122009
    Google Chrome for Mac

    Since the release of Google Chrome for PC in December 2008, there has been much speculation as to the release of a Mac compatible version. This week the long awaited BETA form of Google Chrome for Mac was released, receiving a favourable reception. Google Chrome promises users faster browsing, increased stability and convenience over its [...]

    ABC of SEO

    Mar112009
    ABC of SEO

    Here is our ABC of SEO, aimed to help you understand the key terms in internet marketing, everything from META tags to Everflux. a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q [...]