Posts Tagged ‘2010

Well, we’ve already covered Google and Facebook, so now it’s time to turn to Twitter for the top trends of 2010. The microblogging service is used by millions of users to discuss the minutae of their daily lives, so we can only assume that Twitter’s trending topics algorithm disregards our predicted winner – “I’m having [...]

We’ve already seen what people have been searching for on Google in 2010,  but today Facebook have entered the zeitgeist fray to tell us just what the residents of the world’s largest social network have been talking about. Facebook’s Fastest Growing Global Trends HMU – Apparently it’s the Internet’s hottest new acronym and means “Hit [...]

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We know, we know. It’s July. The sun is shining. People are wandering the streets of Manchester topless (why?). Beer gardens are full. Who’d be thinking of Christmas at a time like this? Well, you should be for starters. If you’re running an SEO campaign, you need to stop thinking about margheritas and start thinking [...]

Over the past decade, the Internet hasn’t just been a space for businesses to make money. It’s allowed people to connect. As we move into 2010, the Internet is now the most important social space on the planet, and social pages are the most powerful pages on the net. It’s not enough that you’ve got [...]

At the start of the 2000s, all the content a company needed could be found on its website. As we move into the next decade, more and more content will be found on external blogs. Search engines love blogs, social networks love blogs, and users love blogs. Why?

In 2006, a micro-blogging website crept onto the Internet and allowed users to share 140 character messages. Nobody paid much attention. Then, as the decade drew to a close, millions of people stood up and took notice. Over the last year, Twitter was the fastest growing website on the internet and businesses have been signing up in their thousands.

If the 1990s was the decade of Microsoft, then the last decade belonged well and truly to Google. As search became the prime source of online traffic and income, Google.com became the internet’s most visited page, and Google became one of the world’s most consistently profitable businesses.

But is the decade of search coming to an end? If it is, what will replace it? And how will businesses need to adapt?


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