Google is ‘white bread for the mind’

Is Google to blame for the softening of our brains? Do search engines prevent us from being able to form our own opinions and beliefs? A look into the effect that the internet is having on our students.

Joe Friedlein

Survey reveals role of search engines in travel purchases

Study from Google / comScore reveals that only 10% of first visits to travel websites result in sale. 38% of sales take place four weeks after the initial visit. Search engines are being used in more sophisticated ways to find travel related web content.

Joe Friedlein

Open-source search engine launches

Wikia search launches in alpha to a rapturous lack of applause. Only time will tell if the human edited search results will help improve the quality of the search results, but Google can rest easy for the immediate future.

Joe Friedlein

Google’s search market share increases

Google increases its market share in the US. As the search engine giant increases its grip on search engine marketing, what can Yahoo, MSN and the remaining competition do?

Joe Friedlein

Yahoo posts promising third quarter results

Yahoo posts some encouraging financial data. Whilst it is still a very long way behind Google, there are signs that the Panama platform have helped the company’s fortunes.

Joe Friedlein