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Today’s Deal of the Day: GroupOn for $2.5 Billion

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

Google, Industry News, Social Media

According to sources around the internet, Google are rumoured to have bought GroupOn for $2.5 billion (£1.6 billion) after weeks of negotiating although neither party has yet commented on the deal. (more…)

Top 10 Product Brands on Facebook

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Brand Monitoring, Digital Marketing, Online PR, Social Media

Since the dawn of the Facebook Fan Page, the big brands have been out there fighting to raise their online brand profile. Attracting the millions of Facebook users to ‘like’ and ‘share’ to continually expose their household name to a growing network of followers and their friends. (more…)

Optimising for YouTube

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

SEO, Social Media

What Makes A YouTube Video Rank?

When it comes to YouTube, there is a variety of factors that will help a video rank at the top of YouTube and even appear as the first result of a universal search result in Google.  Although Google’s algorithm is continuously changing to give us the most relevant results, YouTube sticks with the medieval search model of titles, meta descriptions and meta keywords. (more…)

Google’s Gone World Cup Mad

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Featured, Google

In three days time, the world will tune in to one of the biggest spectacles on the planet – The World Cup. We’ve already blogged about companies jumping on the World Cup bandwagon, now Google have joined in with the fun.

For any normal event or anniversary, Google would usually change their logo. Not this time. This time they have tried a different tactic. Using the same “World Cup” search and scrolling to the bottom of the page, you find the normal “Goooooooogle” page numbers replaced with “Goooooooooal!”. (more…)

Playable PacMan – Best Ever Google Logo!

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Google, Social Media

PacMan Google Logo - Best Logo Ever!OK, I’ll openly admit this wasn’t discovered by myself, Dave found it while browsing to Google. Either way, this has to be one of the best Google logo’s to date.

Google are known for their logo designs depending on certain events and anniversaries of particular people or innovations. Today is no different – only this time, they have done something extremely cool. (more…)