http://www.justsearching.co.uk/news SEO News from Just Search Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:04:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been announced that Microsoft’s Bing search engine will be the new sponsor of The Simpsons when it is shown on Channel 4. The three-month deal is thought to be worth over half a million pounds. Microsoft is looking to raise awareness about its new search engine and is using ... http://www.justsearching.co.uk/news/bing-to-sponsor-the-simpsons.html Search engine giants Google have released yet another innovative product to help improve the web browsing experience. This latest feature is called Google Reader Play, and it is designed to display RSS news feeds in a more visually entertaining format. Some have described the way the new interface displays the web ... http://www.justsearching.co.uk/news/google-reader-play-makes-rss-feeds-fun.html According to a new report published by Barracuda Labs, only around one fifth of all users registered on Twitter regularly use their accounts. The study categorises users as active if they: • Follow more than 10 other Twitter accounts • Have 10 or more followers • Have posted more than 10 tweets since signing up to ... http://www.justsearching.co.uk/news/study-claims-that-only-21-of-twitter-accounts-are-active.html The Director of Trust and Safety for Twitter, Del Harvey, has announced this week that the mini-blogging social networking site is launching a new service to prevent against phishing scams, spam and abuse. Posting on the Twitter blog, she explained how the site has taken steps to protect users from ... http://www.justsearching.co.uk/news/twitter-takes-action-against-phishing-scams.html As of Thursday 11th March, Google’s Street View will include 360 degree, street-level imagery for every street in the UK. The coverage at the moment is patchy at best, but the hard work of Google’s Street View team means that Britain can finally catch up to other European countries such ... http://www.justsearching.co.uk/news/google%e2%80%99s-street-view-rolls-out-nationwide.html The Open Net Initiative (ONI) have recently revealed that Microsoft’s much talked-about new search engine Bing is more restrictive than government censors when it comes to online searches for sex-related or explicit content. Researchers at ONI claimed that a test had been run in January 2010, running queries related ... http://www.justsearching.co.uk/news/bing-blocks-adult-content-searches-in-middle-east.html According to calculations by SharesPost Inc., an internet trading platform, the social networking company Facebook Inc. has the potential to reach a total value of approximately $11.5 billion (around 7.2 billion GBP). This figure far surpasses the predicted figures for any of Facebook’s rivals, such as MySpace and Twitter Inc. Although ... http://www.justsearching.co.uk/news/facebook-worth-a-forecasted-11-billion.html Ads on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter are set to be regulated by the Advertising Stands Authority, and stricter rules on how companies use profiles on the sites to advertise are also likely to come into play. The proposals would see social networking sites regulated in the same way as ... http://www.justsearching.co.uk/news/google-and-twitter-ads-to-be-regulated.html Microsoft is stepping up its campaign to take on Google, with new television adverts set to be unveiled this week. The adverts, which are part of a £2billion marketing campaign, feature the slogan ‘Bing and decide’ – which appears to be a sly dig at rivals Google. The ads will run for ... http://www.justsearching.co.uk/news/microsoft-gets-set-to-unveil-bing-ad-campaign.html Somebody somewhere published the 10 billionth tweet this week, but this is only a marker in Twitter’s huge and ongoing growth. In February, the social networking site attained an average of 50m tweets a day, which works out at 2.5m every hour. But to really make sense of these numbers, you ... http://www.justsearching.co.uk/news/the-ten-billionth-tweet-appears-on-twitter.html