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Google is currently in the process of rolling out an update to Google+. Here’s Google+ Product Manager Sara Mckinley to give us some of the details: We spend lots of time listening to your feedback, and today we’re launching some profile and page… Read more

This Thursday (7 March 2013) marks the sixteenth year of World Book Day, a worldwide celebration of books and reading observed in over 100 countries across the globe. One of the day’s key aims is to encourage children to read more and, perhaps most… Read more

Responsive web design (or RWD): it’s everywhere at the moment. Content may well be king, but the way in which that content is displayed to perfectly suit the device you’re viewing it on is getting pretty close to the top of the digital marketing agenda…. Read more

Traffic from Google Image Search drops dramatically since redesign Just over a month ago Google released its redesign of Image Search and mentioned that in Google’s own tests, they had seen “a net increase in the average click-through rate to the… Read more

Instagram now has 100 million active users This week Instagram announced that it has passed the 100 million active user landmark. This is quite an achievement for the Facebook-owned photo app after a few months of ups and downs and plenty of lost users…. Read more

I read with interest a recent article by the New York Times, explaining how Netflix is using data from its user base to make decisions about what content to show, and more importantly what content to produce. While the use of data as a way to pre-empt… Read more

Matt Smith is an excellent new addition to our design team, having joined us as a junior web designer last week following a four week internship. He’s certainly proved himself academically, having graduated from the University of Brighton last year… Read more

This week, it’s a 4:1 ratio of Google to Bing news. We’ve got thrills, spills, spam battles, unannounced Penguin updates (possibly), new XML sitemaps and so much more. Welcome to the Search News Round Up! Google fights fake online reviews Worried… Read more

Big brand hacking On Monday, Burger King was subjected to a ridiculous and embarrassing hacking on Twitter. Its profile picture was changed to a McDonald’s logo and its bio declared “Just got sold to McDonald’s because the whopper flopped”. However,… Read more