A recent study that was carried out with 1500 people across the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain by IDC for Akamai Technologies showed that 30% of European online shoppers are using or plan to use their mobile devices for e-commerce in the coming year. 10% are said to be already using their mobile/smart phones for retail/price

Facebook have recently launched their new Facebook Deals. It adds to their range of pages such as Facebook Pages, Facebook Ads, and most recently, Facebook Places which help users and businesses share, connect and interact with one another. Deals gives businesses the opportunity to reward customers when they check in on Facebook, and this helps generates

Google has now launched their new presentation of local results, which is now called Place Search. It offers a completely different look and feel of SERPs on Google.com. Going forward, if Google thinks you’re performing a local search, it will default the results to a Place Search. If you don’t include any specific location information like

Mobile Internet Use is growing faster then ever. Users are now able to access information ‘on-the-go’ at good speeds across 3G networks and Wi-Fi hotspots. Look at your analytics and your will see the referring browsers now include mobile devices – Mobile Phone Internet browsers commonly include IE, Safari and Chrome – This Analytics chart

United Nations statistics has suggested that one third of the world’s population will be online by the end of 2010. Online users have doubled to two billion in the last five years according to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The data shows that connections in the developed world still outstrip those in the developing world.

Creative agency heads are asking a new question when they begin to develop a new campaign: “What is it are going to want to engage in?” says Paul Gunning, Chief Executive Officer, Tribal DDB Worldwide. When ad execs find the answer, then they start to think about social, TV, radio and print. – A

Just as businesses and users felt like they were getting to grips with the range of social media platforms and search engines available to them a new one comes along. Facebook has now unveiled a new feature called Graph Search to allow users to sift through pictures, posts and messages, With Graph Search, people can search

A. – Check in at your business On a smartphone with geo-location and the Facebook App installed – click on the Places icon on the dashboard. Facebook will provide you with a list of Places nearby to choose from in a couple of seconds. You may find your business is already available. Click on that –

Studio 8 Search will be holding a Seminar at Malmaison Oxford on the 29th October 2010 together with B4 Business. The seminar will discuss how important search has become and offer a look into how you can improve your web optimisation with a few simple ideas. Unlike other seminars simply showcasing statistics, this seminar will actually teach you

The launch of Google Instant Search came as a surprise to everyone, especially as the beta version was only announced a few weeks back. Some searchers may have noticed the Greyed out Google logo yesterday that changed back to colour as you typed. This was to celebrate the launch of Google Instant. This is basically