Bing – Microsoft’s new and improved search engine named went live two days ago, well at least the beta version of it. The official launch is due to coincide with Microsoft’s Dr. Qi Lu presentation tomorrow at Search Engine Land’s Search Marketing Convention SMX Advanced in Seattle. As Live.com is still live and users can [...]

American software manager Carol Bartz will be the new CEO of internet giant Yahoo. The appointment of Bartz brings to an end the two-month search for a successor to Yang. Internet pioneer and co-founder of Yahoo, Yang gave up his CEO position after potentially lucrative deals nearing 50 million dollars with Microsort Corp. collapsed. Bartz [...]

ClikStats was developed over the Christmas period by one of THUK’s development team “Adrian Callaghan” who was looking into furthering his knowledge of his wordpress Blog. Adrian had an idea to make an SEO plugin, this allowed him to track the traffic going through his own blog to enable him to analyse what was clicked, [...]

Social Media Marketing is an area of online marketing that doesn’t stop growing, with more and more users joining social networking sites every day, such popularity and increasing numbers of users has been drawing  attention from marketers around the globe for quite some time. Social media marketing is the process of promoting a site, business [...]

A Search engine start-up by a few ex-Google employees has just launched called Cuil  (pronounced Cool according to them). It has an interesting 2 or 3 column magazine style layout that is very different to any other search engine. One thing that struck us was that it looks like a single column might be designed [...]

UK businesses are cutting their marketing and advertising budgets for the third quarter in a row according to the latest Bellwether report, the quarterly survey of marketing budgets. The report also forecasts further cuts later in the year, citing disappointing sales, rising costs and growing economic gloom. All sectors of marketing saw budget cuts with [...]

Whether you have a simple webpage, a blog or a fully-fledged dynamic website, new visitors to your site will either stay and read more or leave and never return based on some very subjective criteria. Not least of these is the “look and feel”. If your site looks “right” they will most likely read a [...]

The new version of Mozilla Firefox appeared on the Mozilla server this evening. It’s a very early version and is called Minefield, signed with code 4.0a1pre. The new version is so fresh that after installation, it redirects to the site on the Mozilla server which doesn’t exist yet. The Interface is very similar to the [...]

There are some amusing cartoons based on online marketing available over on the email marketing reports website. Here are my two favourite online marketing cartoons: ‘When Marketers get Desperate’ and ‘Online Loss Therapy’.           Click each image to view the cartoons.

We mentioned the rumors surrounding the possible competition to PayPal from Google a while back. It now looks like the rumors were correct. The San Jose Mercury News has an article discussing this. Its very interesting that they are initially going to tie this to the GoogleBase service. And it will also provide an alternative [...]

Advertsisers are likely to place more budget online than with national newspapers, says a report from GroupM. The report highlights that Online Marketing is taking a share of the market from TV, Newspaper and Direct Marketing. This gradual shift is likely to continue, as more and more people are online and advertising online is cheaper [...]

I had a meeting recently with the founder of Media Steps. Media Steps are a UK based company that, provide a unique way of advertising. They supply the staircase advertising in high traffic locations such as train stations and football stadiums throughout the UK. The current network of step advertising sites, sees a yearly footfall [...]