Back in October 2009,  Google launched their ‘Social Search’ service, which provided the signed in searchers to  view connections and news from their social media outlets such as Facebook, and now, the service has been stretched out over 19 more countries in an attempt to expand dominance in the search engine market, along with further [...]

The EU has officially decided against imposing legislation against a ’2 speed’ internet, in a blow to net neutrality campaigners. Some ISP’s (internet service providers) have been pushing for a multiple tiered internet, which would see certain functions and websites take priority over others in the speed in which the data is delivered, and the [...]

SEO guru and head of Google’s webspam team Matt Cutts has confirmed that shortened URL’s – very popular in the social media world – will not have any negative effects on SEO and anchor text links. On a Google video, Cutts explained that most shortened url’s work just like regular 301 redirects – where the [...]

After years of battles and disagreements, the internet overseer Icann have given final approval for a new top level domain to come into use. The .xxx domain, which rather predictably will be used for adult and pornographic websites had faced competition in the past from conservative groups, however it has now been approved and will [...]

Search engine giant Google have unveiled the newest update to their search engine results, one which allows the user to further personalise their results and what they see. Everyone has had the experience of  searching for something, clicking a result only for it to be a poor, low quality site which seems to have no [...]