Twitter has improved the relevancy of its trending topics by adding a new feature that allows you to see local trends. The new feature currently allows you to select geographic regions which include a handful of countries including the UK and Ireland and some major cities including London. Twitter states that they are “working on” increasing the locations on offer so eventually we will get a much more comprehensive list. (more…)

Google suggest manages to throw up some humorous suggestions and I found this one particularly amusing as well as interesting. Google suggest is becoming quite an insightful feature, not only does it help with keyword research but you can also monitor word of mouse and opinions on your brand. (more…)

According to The Next Web, Twitter is planning to release neglected usernames from inactive accounts so that other users can have them. (more…)

Google is reportedly upping its efforts into the real estate market as it plans to “acquire one to two small real estate companies a month’. Sam Sebastian, Google’s director of local and business to business sector denied that Google are planning to buy Trulia – a widely speculated “rumor” - but did mention the fact that Google is looking at options in buying up smaller real estate companies. (more…)

Advertisers on Yahoo will now be able to distribute their ads across more sites and also convert Google AdWords data across for use on its engine as part of a shake up on its paid search services. (more…)

Google has updated its ranking tracking technology to determine the quality of tweets as part of its new incorporation of real time results. (more…)

Recent stats recently published by Compete and Quantcast have shown that for yet another month Twitter’s stats are flat lining. The social site which saw an impressive spike in traffic in the first half of 2008 has since never reached these heights. After having a bit of a think and reading around on what people think of the matter I thought I would jot down 8 reasons why I think Twitter is struggling to gain the same peak in popularity it did in that glorious July in 2009. (more…)

Microsoft has pulled off a major coup by striking a deal with Hewlett Packard (HP) that will see Bing continue as the default search engine on their machines worldwide. (more…)