At the weekend the Sunday Times business section included a long article on  on Search Engine Optimisationand how its popularity is growing in the UK. Fredrick Marckini, the chief global-search officer at Isobar commented in the article that:

“Research shows 72% of web users click on natural listings thrown up by search engines and not on […]

The Internet network is sort of counting mechanism, a good example is a clock counting down your death http://www.deathclock.com We all like having fun, playing around and wasting time on the internet and do not often reflect how the algorithms work.
However, it appears that the algorithm is serious a factor to consider when estimating the value […]

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and the quality of traffic to a website from the search engines via organic search result for the targeted keywords. The higher a web site ranks in the search engines the more searchers will see that web site.
SEO considers how the search engines work […]

Shock announcement: Microsoft has offered to by Yahoo for $44.6 Billion.
Initially when this story was creeping around the gossip columns, it looked like a nice piece of PR for Microsoft. It turns out that the story is true.
It will be very interesting to see how this plays out, both Yahoo and Microsoft search engines lag […]

Ranking well in Google is a highly desirable commodity. Let’s face it, with 93% of internet traffic delivered through the search engines, it can have a huge impact on any business.
Ranking well in Google is not something that can be achieved without effort and dedication, there are just too many competitors doing that. But, ranking […]

The GYM Club as it is known in the search industry consists of Google, Yahoo, and MSN. It’s not the gym that contains weights and treadmills. But believe it or not, the members of both types of ‘GYM’ do share some common ground.
Visibility
One of the reasons people go to the gym is to get noticed. […]

A new study on search engine user behaviour, underlines the importance of having your website ranked on the first few pages of the search engines for keywords.
“The iProspect Search Engine User Behavior Study”, conducted by Jupiter Research, shows that search engine users are now a fickle bunch who are becoming better at using search engines […]

Yahoo have announced they have made changes to there index last weekend.

Why is this important?

Search engines don’t actually search the internet in real time, what they do is pre-search websites and build a database to all the pages they have found – this is the index.

When you […]

Three out of every four UK searches are made using Google. That’s the latest statistic, which has been produced, independently, by WebSideStory.
These figures, which state that the UK are bigger ‘Googlers’ than the Americans (UK 74.67, USA 55.39%), will have a major impact on companies that are looking to drive traffic to their website. Basically, […]

Google were ordered by the courts to hand over search data to the US Government.
Unlike AOL, MSN and Yahoo, Google had held back from releasing any data to the US Government. They formally rejected demands to comply with the request stating “The request would violate the prvacy of its users and reveal secrets to their […]