Have you noticed that people no longer search for things, they ‘Google’ them?
Search Engines have been around since like 1993 & Google went public in 1998… how did people miss the years of it being called ‘searching’?
The way they’re expanding and taking over pretty soon our spoken language will only contain articles, conjunctions and Google:
“Hey, lets google up google this google. I google there is going to be a google and we can totally get googled… google?”
– Googled by Google Google on Google 4th, 2000 Google.
Posted by Simon Evans on Thursday 13th of March 2008 at 11:28am
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We already know people are searching for the weather and adult-material, these stats aren’t interesting. What is interesting is Google’s fastest rising search terms globally. This year, it looks like we are searching for friends and communication tools.
10. Club Penguin
Club Penguin is a multi-player online world for children, launched in 2005. Players can talk to each other and earn virtual money. Walt Disney recently bought Club Penguin for $700m and will be launching a UK-version mid-2008. You can still go play the US version though.
Penguins have become a popular search term, which seems to have been sparked by the surprise hit documentary March of the Penguins back in 2005, which grossed over $77 million in the US and Canada. Film-makers were quick to jump on peoples penguin preoccupation and released the animated film Happy Feet in 2006 and the ‘mockumentary’ film Surf’s Up in 2007.
9. hi5
Another social networking site, hi5 allows people to make profiles that display information about themselves, and ‘connect’ with other people on the site.
Social networking has exploded in 2005 thanks to sites like MySpace and Facebook.
8. Second Life
Again, another social application. Second Life is a virtual world created by it’s users. Residents can offer their own products and services and sell these for ‘Linden Dollars’. Some people have even been able to make a sizeable income from Second Life. The downloadable viewer client is open source and can be improved and modified by anyone.
7. eBuddy
eBuddy allows you to login to various instant messaging services without downloading any software. Personally, I prefer Meebo.
6. YouTube
YouTube was created back in 2005 by three ex-Paypal employees. It uses Adobe Flash to st…
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Posted by James Hall on Thursday 13th of March 2008 at 10:36am
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Our latest website has recently gone live at www.winetours.co.uk.
Arblaster & Clarke are a specialist travel company providing a programme of holidays around the world for wine enthusiasts. We were tasked with giving their existing web presence a major overhaul to increase visitors and generate more targeted enquiries.
The previous site was idiosyncratic and sprawling – great content but had a quirky, unpredictable architecture that made it difficult for unfamiliar visitors to find their way around. We built on the fine words by creating a friendly interface that allows site visitors to search for tours, click on recommendations, or browse by destination or holiday type.
We’ve also shored up the booking process, building a secure system that lets customers provide payment details for processing offline.
Online bookings are up and the new site continues to maintain its strong Google ranking for key search queries.
We’re already on with additional improvements and extra features!
Posted by Simon Frost on Tuesday 12th of February 2008 at 11:44am
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Here’s a useful page I found on the Telegraph website. It lets you choose types of activities and give a date span which it then uses to show you all relevant events in your part of the world. Nice use of the Google Maps functionality.
Take a look at www.telegraph.co.uk/activityplanner
Posted by Simon Frost on Monday 7th of January 2008 at 2:25pm
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