Warren Cowan

Warren Cowan

Warren Cowan is CEO at Greenlight which he founded in 2001. Warren has worked exclusively in the search marketing industry for over 13 years. He has developed unrivalled search knowledge and a unique perspective on the growth and movement of the industry, while actively directing and driving the company’s 115 strong team in its global growth and product development.

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13 th Jan 2010

Google’s quitting China spells loss of advertising dollars and greater dependency on foreign operators

Google has indicated it may cease to operate in China following a cyber attack aimed at gathering information on human rights activists. If Google quits China, then it leaves MS yahoo and Baidu as the primary sources for accessing the Chinese searching audience.
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10 th Jun 2009

Search wars - Round 2?

Is Microsoft's launch strategy for its new search engine 'Bing' going to allow it to encroach on Google's market share? That's the big question. Rumour has it that Microsoft has $100m for its marketing campaign, but Comscore stats for the last 6 months in the US, show market share as being larg...

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04 th Jun 2009

Farecast could be Bing's best point of leverage

I've always liked the Farecast interface. It gives that feeling of true flexibility of refining your choices without you having to keep going back and endlessly redo your searches.

It is one of those few great examples of professional and expert power, put in the hands of the consumer by new web ...

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28 th May 2009

If it looks like Google, it must be Google, and therefore we're ok with it!

Fascinating and slightly intimidating research reported in Adage this week about internal research at Google, which suggests that as long as you badge it Google, user perception and preference on search results goes up, even if it's not Google's results.

The research which took search results...

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09 th May 2009

Musings on customised / personalised search engine results.

The idea of 1 set of keyword specific search results for all, has always been considered something of an old school way of search engines doing things, although in the light of anything better it was the best thing to be had, and arguably Google have given it the best stab possible.

As an improve...

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17 th Dec 2008

Searching for hearts and minds

At a time when budgets are being hastily trimmed in areas that have supported the branding effort, interest in cost-effective mediums like search is gaining momentum. More specifically, businesses are interested in how search can be used to drive the branding process and preserve brand equi...

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31 st Oct 2007

In search of an edge

Spend on internet marketing is growing like never before. The sector is propping up the UK advertising economy with an extra £1.3bn in the first half of this year alone, according to the IAB. Search engine marketing continues to be the online medium that is attracting marketing spend. Nearly 60 per cent of all online budgets are being committed to those most innocuous yet powerful little text ads, proving that media doesn't have to be rich to produce the great returns marketers are looking for.
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