How many people search “pages from the UK” on Google?
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a campaign plan to get an international software company to appear in Google’s UK search results. The criteria are simple enough: you must have a .co.uk domain name, have your website physically hosted in the UK or, preferably, both. To put your site’s British-ness beyond refute you would also back this up with a substantial number of inbound links from other sites that fulfil the same criteria.
If you’re part of a global company that is using a .com domain and hosting all its websites from its US head office you are going to incur some costs to appear in the UK results, but is it worth it?
Posted by Brad, 22 May 2009 , 9:40 am
Yammer: ‘We want to cut the amount of email you get in half’
Ever feel like you're drowning in email? Yammer may have the answer. We caught up with Yammer CEO David Sacks to find out if microblogging really can help us work more effectively…
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Inspired by Twitter and Facebook, it’s a business-focused social networking tool designed to increase communication while decreasing email traffic. Launched on stage at TechCrunch50 in September 2008, it’s now used by such corporations as Xerox, Disney and the BBC.
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Posted by Oliver, 14 May 2009 , 1:59 pm
Google announces its biggest interface change for nine years!
Who was expecting the 12th May to cause such a stir in the world of search? Well it was the second Searchology event hosted by Google and if the first event (when Google announced universal search) was anything to go by, we should have been prepared for some serious progress announcements from the search giant.
Timing could not have been more appropriate as Twitter is surrounded with speculation of challenging Google’s search share with its own search functionality.
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