When the news started to break out about the death of Michael Jackson, Google feared that it was under attack as the number of people around the world searching for the latest news on the singer put immense strain on their systems. Users received an error message when searching for the latest news. The same too

Only 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content, a Harvard study of 300,000 users found. The Harvard study found that from 10 million users half of all users updated their page less than once every 74 days. On a typical online social network, they said, the top 10% of users accounted

Starting at 05:00 am GMT this Sunday, Facebook will be allowing users to lay claim to “vanity” URLs. This means you can have a personalised URL for your Facebook Page (facebook.com/yourname). So instead of finding studio8 Search at the following search engine unfriendly URL: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Studio8-Search/90135163173?created#/pages/Studio8-Search/90135163173?v=photos&viewas=687466742 You will now find us here: http://www.facebook.com/Studio8  Search This will

With more and more apps being created for phones such as the iphone and blackberry a question has arisen about how these apps might overtake mobile search. A company that sells pizza for example, could create an app that an iphone user downloads and everytime they want to order a pizza they go straight to

Microsoft is to relaunch its search engine calling it Bing.com. Microsoft says it promises to make search more simpler aiming to overtake Yahoo! in search engine popularity. Google currently has more than 64% of the search market in the US, followed by Yahoo at 20% and Microsoft at 8.2%. Bing wil group searches, for example

Google is evolving and more focus is being paid to ‘local search’ Where once we may had used the ‘Yellow Pages’, ‘BT Directory’ or other business listings company, signs show that more and more people are turning to Google or Yahoo to find local business. It is here where focus should be made to increase

Welcome to the studio 8 search blog. Here we will post seo guides, talk about the latest search engine trends and add other useful hints and tips to help you online search marketing.