Industry News

Google unveils top searches for 2009
Search engine Google has revealed the top search trends of 2009 for UK users, with Stephen Gately being declared this year's 'hottest topic.'

Yahoo! and Facebook get a little friendlier
Yahoo! and Facebook are to announce an extended partnership that will see the social network and search engine allowing users to combine their activity streams.

Google allows news publishers to limit free access
Google has responded to Rupert Murdoch's claim that the search engine is "stealing" news stories by allowing publishers to restrict the amount of news content that can be viewed without subscription.

MySpace Music launches in UK
Over a year after its launch in the US, MySpace Music is now offering MP3 streams and downloads in the UK.

Affiliate Window dynamic search widget becomes UK's first
Affiliate Window's new dynamic search widget has become the first of its kind in the UK, offering an innovative way to search for products online.

Bing goes offline for 30 minutes
Microsoft's search engine suffered a power outage on December 3 that developers claim was due to configuration changes during testing.

Craigslist and eBay go to court
The two major players in online classifieds begin court dispute in Delaware

Annotations - the new Google Analytics feature
An exciting new feature has been launched for Google Analytics - the ability to annotate reports and files with notes for colleagues and clients to see.

Google launches barcodes in Favourite Places
100,000 barcode stickers are being sent out to businesses in the United States, to provide detailed information for users with code reader applications.

Google releases Real Time Search
Google has announced the launch of its real-time search which will go fully live sometime over the next few days in the US, UK, Australia and India.