Google have taken a big step in real time search by displaying its ‘hot tends’ data in the search results. People who are searching for popular topics will see the trending data at the bottom of the search results page. The little snippet is said to “provide you with search results as you’d want but also extra meta data on how popular the search is and whether it has peaked in interest”. (more…)

Further from our recent discussion on the importance of optimising your site for mobile search users are now able to gage estimated search volumes on keywords being made form mobile devices. (more…)

Here is another recap of some of the posts we have been reading this week in the world of search… (more…)

Google have today released its new addition on the Google Toolbar –Sidewiki. The new feature allows users to add helpful information about an entire page or part of a page. This is then published to the browser allowing anyone else with Sidewiki access to see it. So if you happen to like the site then you can give it a positive review. If you hate it you can do the exact opposite. (more…)

For many brands developing and optimising for mobile devices is a given. We all know that using the web on the go is fast becoming the new way to gain information and utilise the internet. Yet there are many businesses still failing to act upon this and the repercussions could be costly. (more…)

As a small business owner, you are probably in a position of wanting to increase traffic to your website whilst working on a tight budget. Driving traffic through natural search results is appealing to small business owners because of the high volume of people searching for your proposition, and the potential long term return on investment. But what are the most important things to consider for small business SEO in order to maximise your budget? We look at five key points below: (more…)

Once again we have another recap on some of interesting ongoings in the world of search this week… (more…)

From today users of Twitter will be able to make voice calls directly to one another through a third party offering from Jajah. Jajah is a large Internet communications provider that boasts a massive number of users. The new service known as Jajah@call will allow people to make free two-way voice calls with other users by typing @call @username and provide a means of sending “short messages with a voice”. (more…)