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19th Jun 2009

Top stories June 2009

Bing Microsoft launches Bing supported by $100m advertising drive
The big news this month is that Microsoft launched its new search engine, Bing, on 28 May, its fourth new engine in five years and a replacement for last year's Live Search.

The company described it as 'specifically designed to build on...

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07th May 2009

Greenlight study identifies most visible flight brands in natural search

New research, conducted by Greenlight, has revealed cheapflights.co.uk as the most visible website and monarch.co.uk the most visible airline in Google natural search results, based on average monthly data gathered in March 2009.

 

Our study analysed 3200 generic and destination specific ke...

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06th May 2009

Greenlight research reveals most visible hotel brands in natural search

 

New research, conducted by Greenlight, has revealed tripadvisor.co.uk as the most visible website and hilton.co.uk the most visible hotel chain in Google natural search results, based on average monthly data gathered in March 2009.

 

We analysed 1200 generic and destination-led key...

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02nd Apr 2009

Top stories April 2009

Google Google launches behavioural targeting programme

The latest development from the Google lab - a behavioural targeting programme that will display adverts across its AdSense content network and YouTube - was launched in test form on 11 March. Internet Based Advertising (IBA) allows advertisers to ...

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17th Dec 2008

Top stories Dec 2008

Yahoo Yahoo! cuts search agency commission
by Hannah Kimuyu

The news Yahoo! will reduce the levels of UK paid search commission it gives to agencies as of 1 January 2009 begs the question: is the search engine simply responding to Google's removal of Best Practice Funding (BPF)?

While Google is remov...

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13th Nov 2008

Top stories Nov 2008

Yahoo Yahoo! deals with rival search engines scrapped

Yahoo! received a double blow last this month when Google announced it was no longer going ahead with the proposed advertising search partnership, then Microsoft told them it was uninterested in renewing bid talks.

Google claims ongoing concerns from...

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15th Oct 2008

Top Stories October 2008

Google U-turns on gambling policy by Hannah Kimuyu We have to confess we weren't all that surprised to hear today's leaked news that Google plans to reverse its gambling policy tomorrow (Friday 17 October, when the announcement will be officially made). In a complete about-turn, the sear...

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