Posts Tagged ‘Search’

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 12 months, you will be aware of the phenomenon that is Twitter.
You may also be aware that Google and Bing have been casting jealous glances at Twitter’s Real Time Search engine, as one of the major flaws in both Google and Bing is the inability [...]

I am over the moon that last night we were named Agency of the Year by the Financial Services Forum at the spectacular Guildhall in London. It was a nail-biting effort by Team Tamar to get there involving a flat tyre, a motorbike rescue dash and a pair of black-tie suit trousers being rescued from [...]

I believe the above quote from the much loved cartoon Pinky and the Brain aptly sums the feelings surrounding the latest case of GoogleGate. The news relating to Google displaying images deemed to be of a racist nature, instantly provoked cries for the public to be better protected against such exposure; Indeed [...]

Google Caffeine on a datacenter near you  – soon
You may remember that back in August we announced that Google was updating their infrastructure and the process was called caffeine.
On the back of that they launched a test ’site’ where you could search and see what impact this had on the search results. And if they [...]

Compare Mortgages direct with Google
After a trial last year in the UK with Google Merchant Search where users were able to compare and be contacted by providers of secured loans late yesterday Google Adwords launched Comparison Ads.
What this does is let users compare multiple, relevant offers more easily by taking information direct from Google Ad [...]

The day was kicked up by a head to head presentation-off between Will Critchlow and Rand Fishkin on the subject of keywords. Both took very different approaches to tackling the subject of keyword research; Rand opting for the macro approach and looking at SEO market share as a whole and in driving traffic to the [...]

They say the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Well that is certainly what Google’s competitors must be hoping.
So the latest search stats from across the pond must have caused some people to think that finally a David had been born to humble the Google Goliath.
According to these stats, Bing (David in this story) [...]

Google has the lions share of the search market, and there isn’t an end in sight, the sheer flexibility and rate at which the search giant can implement new technology and adjust to an ever changing market is the first factor that contributes to their success. There is a lot that goes on behind the [...]

This past weekend, I discovered that tweets from Aaron Williams, Tamar’s Head of Technology (@bayshield), aren’t showing up in Twitter search results.

I noticed it on Sunday while I was monitoring tweets about The Prince’s Trust’s “Palace to Palace” charity ride (Aaron, an avid cyclist, took part in the event and The Prince’s Trust is a [...]

The ideas behind and ways to leverage user generated content have been discussed at length by both distinguished web commentators and novices alike, yet for me it is still very much a grass roots movement.  User comments and forum usage continue to grow exponentially and the reach of UGC extends deep into many websites, now [...]