I recently been noticing some new menu options on Google.com – these don’t appear to be visible to everyone or on other regional Google(s).  So for a search for ‘ipod speakers‘ you are presented with a search results page (SERP) like: Down the left hand side you will see there are now options to filter the [...]

Staying Competitive in 2010 is the next in the series of iCrossing hosted events attracting many clients wanting to hear from our search specialists on how to stay ahead of the game in 2010.   Doug Platts, Head of Natural Search and Tom Jones, Head of Media gave a snapshot of this year followed by a [...]

Optimisation in 2002 Optimising a web site was as easy as adding your chosen search terms into the page title, include a few instances in the body copy, alt tags, and internal links, then submit your site to Yahoo using their $299 express submission and you could start ranking within 7 days in Yahoo. At the time [...]

Last week there was an announcement made by Marissa Mayer (VP at Google) that was eclipsed by the Google/Twitter/Bing deal. Marissa introduced a new search feature that will be available soon, Google Social Search. So, what exactly is it? Google’s Social Search is a new feature that aims to improve search by using your social networks. Once [...]

Not the biggest piece of news to hit us this year but Google have reconfirmed that Search is the primary focus of the company by increasing the size of their Search box and the size of the text that you type in (which also helps from a usability perspective): Google has always been first and [...]

Google launched their latest service yesterday in Google Labs – something called Google Squared: “Google Squared is an experimental search tool that collects facts from the web and presents them in an organized collection, similar to a spreadsheet. If you search for [roller coasters], Google Squared builds a square with rows for each of several [...]