The Web Guy, Online Insights for Business
Announced early this morning on The Next Web Facebook Places is now officially live in the UK. Whilst there is no commercial aspect to the release at this point in the form of Ads, you can add locations to Facebook Pages. Currently you are unable to tag images or videos but this will come in future releases. Action point for businesses is to ensure they've added their Facebook Place location to their Facebook Page. … [Read more...]
Google do things at times that really change the game. Not only can the competition not keep up but they find it hard to know in what direction to go. In a further bid to dominate search, and at the benefit of the end user as well, Google has launched it's new search functionality "Instant". For an in depth explanation of instant please see the Google blog but I will provide a basic overview. Now when you search on Google, in addition to predictive suggestions appearing as you type, Google … [Read more...]
Google's release of it's real-time search functionality is being greeted with mixed emotion. Along with opportunity words of caution are being expressed. Rae Hoffman of Outspoken Media highlights the opportunity not only for spam but also for the more unsavoury aspect of the web to rise to a promonent position, in his article "Google enables real time spam and more". Whilst this is undoubtedly true at present, I am sure Google will be onto these loopholes to ensure they deliver quality … [Read more...]
