Having already forced Facebook to install a panic button, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) is now targeting Twitter. Continue Reading
Yesterday, we mentioned that Google have decided to show you social results when you search Google.com. But only from their own social network. Somewhat unsurprisingly, it took the internet about an eighth of a second to decide that this was a stupid idea. Continue Reading
In their infinite wisdom, Google’s search team have decided that when you search Google.com, you really want to search Google+. So as of today, they’re beginning to drop your social data into your search results. Continue Reading
The BBC are reporting that the world’s favourite search engine has a lucrative sideline in selling knock-off Olympics tickets and mail order cannabis. Continue Reading
A number of internet giants aren’t happy with the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) proposed by the US Senate. And they’re planning a blackout in protest. The bill could give copyright holders a number of powers that they’ll be able to use without trial if a website is thought to … Continue Reading
It turns out that the majority of users are misusing Facebook’s photograph reporting tool, and they’re flagging up pictures as being offensive for a rather different reason than Facebook intended – because they just don’t like the way they look. Continue Reading
the strange clicking noise was yesterday, you’ll be happy to find out that it wasn’t a swarm of crickets outside your house. No, it was every SEO in the world tutting loudly after Google was found to have breached Google’s own rules on buying links. Continue Reading
It looks like lots of people received a brand new smartphone or tablet computer for Christmas, because the last week of December 2011 saw over 1.2 billion mobile apps downloaded in just 7 days. Continue Reading
If your new year’s resolution is to make sure you don’t start 2013 as a divorcee, then you might want to consider a quick cull of your Facebook friends list. And you might want to start by ditching any ex-partners… Continue Reading
Bing on the March
It’s not been a good week for Google. First, Google+’s integration into search went down like a lead balloon, then the continuing anti-trust probe announced that they’d be investigating social search, before Rupert Murdoch decided to make the papers by calling Google pirates. So after seven days like that, you … Continue Reading