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27th Apr 2011

Search Alliance – A genuine competitor to Google in EMEA becoming more distant

The rumours of the past few weeks of a delay in the official rollout of the Search Alliance in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), have now been confirmed, meaning Yahoo! and Microsoft's Bing will continue to operate as separate platforms for the foreseeable future, all of 2011 at least.

But why the sudden change in strategy? Advertisers and Agencies were led to believe the Alliance would finally provide a credible alternative to Google, and sources had suggested the migration in the US, while not error free, was considered to be successful.

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Press Press
21st Apr 2011

Royal Wedding currently generating one mention every ten seconds, online

Within the last seven days, online media – including news sites, blogs, forums, Twitter and Facebook, has seen an accelerated flurry of ‘noise’ around the Royal Wedding. Data compiled by leading independent search marketing specialist and technology firm Greenlight, reveals it has risen a staggering 700% on March levels. Curren

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Blog Blog
21st Apr 2011

Royal Wedding generating one mention every ten seconds, online

Within the last seven days, online media – including news sites, blogs, forums, Twitter and Facebook, has seen an accelerated flurry of ‘noise’ around the Royal Wedding. Data compiled by leading independent search marketing specialist and technology firm Greenlight, reveals it has risen a staggering 700% on March levels. Currently, there’s an average of 9,000 posts a day on online media relating to the Royal Wedding. Internationally, those excited by it outweigh “haters” by 6:1.

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19th Apr 2011

FBI Poker Crackdown Fuels Rise in Google Searches & FTSE Poker Shares

The big news in online gaming over the weekend is the seizure and closure by the FBI of a number of online poker sites (Full Tilt, Poker Stars and Absolute Poker). The sites are alleged to be in violation of federal laws that prohibit gambling in most US states.

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Entertainment , Gaming , and more...
Press Press
14th Apr 2011

Greenlight's research reveals well known news sites are early winners with Google’s Panda update

Early data from leading independent search marketing specialist and technology firm Greenlight, reveals big winners and losers, visibility-wise, from Google’s Panda algorithm update – designed to improve Google’s ability to detect and devalue “low quality content”, which it has now rolled out across all English lang

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13th Apr 2011

Google Panda, Part 2 - Winners & Losers

Part 1 of this post discussed the fact that Panda is now live in the UK, and talked about what Panda actually is. Now we get to the exciting part... which sites are the big winners and losers from the algorithm update?

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Algorithm , Analytics , Google , and more...
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12th Apr 2011

Google Panda hits the UK - Part 1

As of today, Google's "Panda" algorithm update (or "Farmer", as it was originally dubbed by the SEO community) is now live in the UK. This update, designed to improve Google's ability to detect and devalue "low quality content", represents a fairly big step in search engines making the kind of subjective judgements about content that have historically tended to be the preserve of human readers.

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