http://www.thuk.co.uk/blog UK Online Marketing news and strategies. Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:10:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every year time.com, the Time Magazine website, releases a list of the top 50 best websites and this year there are some suprises, at least in my opinion. Time's criteria to choose these sites is quite simple, they pick websites that help users improve their internet experience like yelp.com and its ... http://www.thuk.co.uk/blog/2009/08/27/digg-and-myspace-out-of-time-50-best-websites-2009/ John Prescott, who is an unlikely fan of blogging, recently raised his profile through the use of twitter using it to post news about the Tories and NHS. The politician is also planning to use social networking sites to try to get people involved in a global deal on climate change. In ... http://www.thuk.co.uk/blog/2009/08/26/prescott-uses-social-media-blogging-to-promote-climate-change/ A week ago Google announced that a large team of its search engineers have been working on a secret project, a new infrastructure that will improve indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and not yet confirmed ranking changes, named Caffeine. According to Matt Cutts the changes are in how Google finds and indexes ... http://www.thuk.co.uk/blog/2009/08/19/google-caffeine-update/ Microsoft and Yahoo have finally come up with an agreement that will see Microsoft take total control over Yahoo's search technologies. The deal still needs to have regulatory approval but both sides expect to have everything in place by early 2010, so here are some of the key points ... http://www.thuk.co.uk/blog/2009/07/30/microsoft-takes-over-yahoo-search/ Twitter's home page has been redesigned; the main focus of this overhaul was to demonstrate the power of Twitter as a discovery where users can find what is happening in real time through search and trends. With this in mind Twitter's co-founder Biz Stone believes it will lead new users to ... http://www.thuk.co.uk/blog/2009/07/29/twitter-front-page-gets-an-overhaul/ Bing continues to innovate the way we search and it is the first search engine to start showing Twitter’s results from some “prominent and prolific” Twitters without the need of a add-on or a script, hence the “Twitter Search Results on Google” script and the “Twitter Search Results on Bing ... http://www.thuk.co.uk/blog/2009/07/10/bing-takes-the-first-step-towards-real-time-search/ Who would have thought that the rumors about Google launching an operating system would actually be true, well it is up to a point. The Announcement from Google says: “Today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to ... http://www.thuk.co.uk/blog/2009/07/09/google-os-the-emperors-new-clothes/ Within an hour of Michael Jackson dying, the Internet was flooded with users searching for more information on his death, or simply to confirm what they’ve heard on the streets or watched on TV was true, the King of Pop was dead! Hours after MJ’s death, 30% of all Tweets were ... http://www.thuk.co.uk/blog/2009/07/07/michael-jackson-%e2%80%93-king-of-pop-and-the-internet/ “Your site’s reputation can be affected by who you link to” If you are an SEO you know exactly where the above quote comes from, for those of you not familiar with it, that is a quote from Google Webmasters Guidelines, basically is saying that if link to bad neighbourhood sites, ... http://www.thuk.co.uk/blog/2009/07/06/google-webmasters-guidelines-dont-apply-to-google-itself/ Without a doubt June has been the most exciting month so far this year for the SEO community, a bunch of new products have been announced and introduced not to mention a new Search Engine, in case you missed all the action here is a quick round up of what ... http://www.thuk.co.uk/blog/2009/07/01/seo-round-up-june09/