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Is Facebook a Google competitor? Facebook is launching an email-type tool which will integrate instant communications, and there are half-a-billion people putting up their highly coveted, personal data, likes, dislikes and updates on Facebook which Google et al would love to get their hands on.

The schism between the two companies and Bing as well, is that Facebook is into social networking and Google/Bing are into search, though with a range of other revenue strands behind them such as business apps.

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The New York Times carried a recent story of a Brooklyn fashion eyewear company, which was deliberately behaving badly to customers. The outrageously bad customer service included; cussing at customers, stalking them, taking photographs of their apartment buildings and calling up their credit card companies posing as the customer, to tell the fraud departments “they” had decided to drop any fraud complaints against them. Continue reading →

Last month we posted on the need to gear up the SEO for your website for the Christmas sales season, but right now we are looking at two other important dates in any retailer’s calendar: Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Search Ignite, a leading online marketing and consumer trend company, reports that year-on-year online sales consumer sales are strengthening ahead of the Thanksgiving sales season. Continue reading →

Instant Preview is not to be confused with Google Instant: Instant is the smart search engine dialog box which uses predictive texting to complete your search input.  Google Instant Preview is another step in the direction of speeding up getting to relevant search results; in a nutshell, Google Instant Preview provides visual shots of the web sites returned in the search results. Continue reading →

We reported on Blekko earlier this year when we tested the new search engine as part of its beta testing phase.  You can read the original Rankpay post on Blekko here – and we recommend you do before continuing with this post. Testing is over and Blekko has now launched onto the general search engine public, so now is a good time to take a look at what has changed during the testing phase and why we all should welcome this newcomer to the search engine market. Continue reading →

Google released its latest set of financial results, which by itself doesn’t matter much unless you hold stock.  The real interest behind the latest financial results is the insight investors and analysts are getting, in what CFO Patrick Pichette is saying is a “one time look” at what’s under the financial hood of the online giant. Continue reading →