Industry News

Bing's inital stats bring mixed results
Stats from Hitwise reveal that traffic for the new search service peaked on June 3 (when Bing found itself the eighth most visited website in the UK) but has declined as hype dies down.

Cut-price iPhones could significantly impact online retail
Cut-price iPhones could coax more users onto the web - and the world of online retail.

EU proposal may threaten affiliate marketing, bid management and web analytics
Proposed amendments to EU directives governing privacy and electronic communications could pose a risk to the future of certain aspects of digital marketing.

PageRank Sculpting: The Fall of PageRank Sculpting
Recent changes by Google could see PageRank Sculpting - the practice of distributing importance to links on a webpage to favour some - decline as the search engine moves towards equal value for all links.

Google: Bing won't bring us down
With the web abuzz with reports of Microsoft's recent search offering Bing, it's no surprise that Google has spoken up about its competitor - and dismissively at that.

Mapping the tube strike through Twitter
Today's tube strike in London is causing chaos on Twitter, as well as on the roads.

Founders to move on from Last.fm
The triumvirate responsible for music recommendation site Last.fm are set to step down from their roles at the company later this year.

YouTube helps you share
A new social-media-friendly feature that makes it even easier to share has just been added to YouTube.

Microsoft: Windows 7 to be released without a web browser
Following on from European Commission ruling, Windows 7 will come without Internet Explorer when it is released in Europe

Google to reveal Twitter, sorry microblogging, search function?
It looks as though Google could have worked out its gameplan when it comes to microblogging services.