Facebook topped Google in the UK to be the most popular site on Christmas day. This is an amazing feat considering Google is about Search and people are always looking for stuff online. In the UK however, Facebook seemed to embody the spirit of Christmas for online users, far more than Google did. This was [...]
In line with what has become online tradition for the past few years, Boxing Day saw the most activity and was the busiest day of the year for online retailers in 2010. This was shared by Robin Goad who said that “Yesterday (December 26th) UK Internet visits to online retail websites were 12% higher than [...]
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in the UK has decided that it’s going to pay closer attention to claims and sales practices on websites. This might extend to investigation of PPC campaigns. This new development is being carried out in collaboration with Google. Econsultancy.com explained that natural search results will not be included in this [...]
If you are a Facebook admin, you can now unmerge your Facebook Page from your Facebook Places. In August, Facebook launched Places, a location-sharing service and offered businesses and admins of similar Facebook Pages the option to claim their Places location and merge Places together with Pages. It did not offer any way to undo [...]
Baidu, China’s largest search engine recently announced that its micro-blogging service has reached the one million users mark. The micro blogging service is called Baidu Talk and has Twitter-like features. According to Michael Tan, “Baidu Talk was launched in mid-September as a closed beta, with new users being brought in through invitation only.” This makes [...]
