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Bing News fails to tackle internet traffic initiated by Jackson’s death
The unfortunate news of Michael Jackson’s death created havoc on the Internet. As the initial reports regarding the death of the pop star started coming in late on Thursday night, a large number of people searched for information. The Internet traffic was so great that Google management thought the server of the website was under attack.
The statistics of Microsoft also confirmed that the Internet traffic enquiring about Michael Jackson had been flowing in at unusually large numbers. Microsoft officials have accepted that Bing News could have handled the upsurge in a better way.
When people started searching about Michael Jackson in Bing News, the website failed to flash the recent stories on the top priority basis. Although Bing News had the report about Michael Jackson’s death, the news remained hidden at the bottom of the page. While ideally, under the circumstances, the report of Michael Jackson’s should have been the top news, the site was showing image results.
Sources have revealed that Microsoft has a tool known as “news go big” which it can use when a specific news item takes the world by storm. If the tool was used in Bing News, the search results would have been search specific and could have tackled the staggering Internet traffic in a much better way.
Tinker.com - A new micro-blogging network ready for launch in the UK
Glam media, the operator and owner of the women’s website network Glam.com has announced the launch of an advertisement funded micro-blogging network called Tinker.com. Tinker.com has been designed to look very similar to Twitter and is expected to capitalise on the immense popularity of the social networking site.
Tinker.com has already been launched in the US in May and will be available for use in the UK within a few months time. Initially a launched as a trial version, the website will gauge its success before fully launching.
Although Tinker has been formatted on the lines of Twitter, no profit sharing deals have been struck yet. Tinker will allow live conversation like Twitter but will not exhibit the top ten subjects of conversation as is visible in Twitter. Instead, the users have to select an area of interest to follow real time conversations that are taking place on the subject.
The publishers and users of Tinker will be allowed to post, create and share real time Tinker streams that will be live on their blogs, websites and social networking profiles.
Changes in Google UK affecting search results adversely
Google is trying a new feature in its country specific search engine. Google’s UK homepage usually offers a radio button which users can click on to receive search results that are specific to certain regions. This allowed the users to receive accurate and precise results for their search.
Recently while using Google’s Chrome browser people have found that the traditional radio button is missing. Instead, what is provided is a text link that sometimes appears on top of the search results while at other times it can be seen at the bottom of the search results. This inconsistency may cost the proprietors dearly.
The problem is that sometimes the text link is missing from the website altogether. When the text link is not displayed anywhere in the webpage the websites from other parts of the world are displayed at top positions in the search result page.
In these times of immense competition between Google, Yahoo and Bing, this small glitch could prove to be a big problem for Google.
Myspace Music UK to launch in September
Myspace Music is all set to launch in the United Kingdom. This service, which is already available in the United States of America, was supposed to launch in the United Kingdom at the start of this year. However, it was delayed due to some reshuffling within the company.
Myspace Music for the United Kingdom has been ready for launch ever since April. Several Myspace digital music executives and digital media agency heads have confirmed this. However, the newly inducted Chief Executive Officer Owen Van Natta, who joined Myspace in April 2009, has asked for a little more time to asses the business plan and make the necessary changes.
Owen Van Natta is expected to give his approval to the project in the coming week and Myspace Music will then officially launch in the United Kingdom sometime at the start of the autumn.
Myspace Music will then, after a string of delays, be available to its users in the United Kingdom in the first week of September. This portal will offer the same kind of services as it does in the US.
Google brand update introduced in UK
An update was announced and implemented in the US by Google earlier this year that helps to boost the rank of big brands in search results. The update was implemented in the UK this weekend.
After the Google update, the search results will rank authority websites better in regards to the keywords that are included in the websites.
Previously, if a company or brand wanted to gain a good rank for a frequently used key term the only thing it could do was to undertake immense link building along with advanced on page SEO. But now, after the update has been implemented, Google is improving the ability of authority websites to rank depending on internal linking as well as their external target links.
This implies that from now it will be much easier to get a good rank in the search results for relevant websites. Large brands and popular companies will benefit immensely from this new inclusion in Google.
