Sharon Smith

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07 th 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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06 th 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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15 th 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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22 nd Jul 2008

Top Search Stories – July 2008

Adobe Google unites with Adobe to index Flash files
Earlier this month Google announced its collaboration with Adobe to make Flash files indexable by search engines. Up until now any text appearing in a Flash site could not be read by search engines.

The new development means that Google will be able...

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05 th Jun 2008

Top Search Stories – June 2008

Brands react to Google's Trademark bidding. Google's decision to allow UK and Ireland advertisers to bid on their competitor's trademarks from May 5th has led to a number of major brands considering 'gentleman's agreements' not to bid on each others brand names. It is believed that rival compa...

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01 st Apr 2008

Top Search Stories – March 2008

Google launches free ad management service Google has recently launched a free ad-serving service called Ad Manager. The new service works by serving ads on unsold spots on publishers web sites, with Google earning commission from the revenue. As well as facilitating the placement of ads on ...

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27 th Feb 2008

Top Search Stories - February 2008

Google improves mobile search service

Google's recent updates to its mobile search service aim to deliver a faster and more intuitive mobile search experience. Instead of leaving users to sift through results from both the mobile and regular search, the new service trawls all sources - including ...

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