September 30th, 2009

August must be the month for changing your car – Matt, Brendan and myself have all gone for new cars. Mine is the black X5 , Brendan the new Golf GTI and er Matt has gone for an Astra – well i think it is, well that’s what we all told him to get??!*?/!

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September 23rd, 2009

It seems that the new boss at Yahoo, Carol Bartz has started exerting her influence on the struggling company. They have relaunched their search pages, supported by a massive $100m global advertising campaign.

A big part of the redesign means Yahoo will open its home page to rivals, allowing users to integrate third-party web services like Facebook or Hotmail into its portal. The new “customisable applications” allow people to see a snapshot of their favourite web services within the Yahoo portal – whether it is a social networking site, a rival web mail service, or their favourite website.

“The new home page is a powerful way to get a view into your life on the internet.” said Rich Riley, Yahoo’s senior vice-president for Europe.

“We expect more traffic, the number of unique users to go up… an increase in audience engagement and more repeat visits.” he continued.

We’ll see I suppose but to me it looks a little bit like what Google did with their front page over a year ago and Yahoo are once again playing catch-up.

Yahoo currently have 8.4% market share in the UK, recently losing ground to Microsoft’s Bing. Google, of course, still lead the way.

I’m still optimising our clients’ sites for Google. If a site is ranking well on Google, it usually (but not always) ranks well on the other “big three”.

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September 2nd, 2009

Brendan is very seriously considering a new motor for his short trip from didsbury to the office (Knutsford) a Rolls Royce or Ford Cortina. He needs a little help with his decision, your comments are very welcome, so I have uploaded a couple of pics for you to view.

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