Search engines attract 2.3bn UK visits in January
Visits to search engines in the UK increased to 2.3bn in January 2012 compared to 2.2bn in the same period in 2011, according to data from Experian Hitwise.
The additional 100m visits equates to a yearly increase of 4.5%.
Google still dominates the market with 90.64% of all UK searches conducted in January, slightly down on December's tally of 91.75% but up 0.27% annually.
Is SEO really bad for the internet?
Aaron Wall recently reported on a Google employee who left comments on Hacker News to the effect that SEO is bad for the internet.
The Google employee, Googley Jon Rockway, said that "SEO isn't good for users or the internet at large".
It's a surprising statement for a Google employee to make, and I've been asking some SEO experts about their views on the issue, and whether this reflects the search giant's real views.
41% of Super Bowl ad searches during game made via mobile: infographic
Google has released data from Sunday evening which reveals that 41% of searches relating to Super Bowl ads made during the game came from mobile devices.
A post on the company's blog states that this is up from 25% for the same time period on the day before.
AOL turns to Yahoo's ad exchange to move inventory
How to compete with Google in the display advertising space? Late last year, three unlikely allies, Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft, forged a pact that would allow each company to sell certain display ad inventory for the others.
At the time, Yahoo and Microsoft decided to use different ad exchanges, while AOL remained undecided.
10 amazing Google infographics
I've rounded up ten recent infographics on Google, with lots of stats, tips on searching Google, the most expensive keywords, and 2011 revenues.
Where possible, I've added the infographics to this post in a readable size, but for others you can click on the image to see a larger version...
Google, Facebook, PayPal and Microsoft join forces to fight phishing
Google, PayPal, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft, alongside 10 other leading email, security and financial providers, have formed the technical working group, DMARC, in order to reduce email phishing and spam.
The DMARC, Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, will create internet standards to improve email senders' authentication practices.
Yahoo's five biggest acquisition screw-ups
Q4 financial results have hit us hard this week, from all directions.
Yes it's ridiculous that Apple’s quarterly net profit was larger than Google's Q4 gross revenue ($13bn versus £10.6bn), and yes it's sad to see Nintendo almost triple its estimated losses.
But what of Yahoo? It's still hanging on in there, with control of millions of Yahoo mail accounts and a chunk of display thrown in good measure.
Enterprise iPhone 4S activations surged in Q4
There are a lot of words and phrases that could be used to describe Apple's fiscal first quarter financial results. Amongst them: incredible, unbelievable, record-breaking and earth-shattering.
Strong (to put it modestly) sales of iPhones, iPads and Macs produced over $46bn in revenue and a mind-boggling net profit of more than $13bn.
When it came to the iPhone, the company's latest, the iPhone 4S, proved to be a winner, with more than 37m units sold in the quarter, which covered the all-important holiday shopping season.
New Google privacy policy shares user data across multiple products
Google has consolidated its privacy policies so that data held in separate product accounts will now be merged into one.
It means that when signed in, a user’s data will be shared across Gmail, YouTube, Google+, Maps and search.
Breaking down Google's 2011 revenues: infographic
Hot on the heels of Google's earnings announcement last Thursday, Wordstream has conducted analysis into the top 10 industries that spent the most money on ads with the search giant.
Resulting in $39.7bn overall, it seems that the finance & insurance industry contributed the most, followed closely by retailers & merchandise - and then travel.
