Google has run into trouble in some countries offering all of their services and some users in those countries assume it’s Google playing favorites – but in many cases, it’s the country’s own government that blocks features or limited infrastructure to support bandwidth in others. Some of the noted features missing from Google across the [...]
When the World Wide Web … Isn’t.
August 1st, 2009Google Update Mismatches Local Results
July 2nd, 2009Google UK results have been completely scrambled by a major update at the beginning of the month. The results are being utterly overtaken by non-UK websites. On June 4th, a major update went live across Google. The result? A host of international sites springing to the top of Google UK results. Rolling changes have developed throughout June as [...]
Online Spend – Up or Down?
June 25th, 2009Is 2009 going to be the biggest year ever? Or will the recession and rising concerns about interent hackers cause the rising wave of online spend to finally crest and break? The Interactive Advertising Bureau released figures last week which ran counter to predictions earlier ion the year. Online ad revenues declined in Q1 2009 [...]
Google Street View Blindsided in Greece
May 22nd, 2009One after another, countries in Europe halt Google’s Street View, which gives users a 360-degree view of a road via Google Maps, or else demand less invasive filming and cataloguing of their city streets. The latest country to slam the brakes on Google’s Street View cars is Greece; Greece’s data protection agency has stopped [...]
Social Media Edges out Email Marketing, Paid Search
April 23rd, 2009Lots of news from the UK this week! It’s smart to pay attention to both sides of the Atlantic, and research from Hitwise seems to indicate that online retailers in the UK are now getting lesser amounts of traffic from paid search efforts. However, their overall numbers are still good, so where is the extra [...]