Facebook have announced their Open Graph Search facility which will roll out to replace the existing search function.  The search engine allows you to discover new people, places or things based on the correlation of different elements of the social graph.  ”Show me restaurants in Edinburgh that my friends have checked into.” “Show me the most popular band my friends like.”   The search results will be based upon the »

Nicely timed for the holiday period, a new vulnerability has been discovered in versions of IE older than 9 that allows criminals to target the Windows PC they are running on. Affecting IE6, IE7, and IE8 the latest vulnerability is bad news for those still running Windows XP users as they cannot upgrade to more recent versions of Microsoft’s browser. If you can we strongly recommend upgrading to IE9 or IE10, which are not affected, or even better »

  Google loves fresh unique content.  One of the key considerations for any SEO strategy must be content. Both the quality of content and frequency of updating. The frequency is important. When Google visits your site it will check for fresh content. If your site has not been updated for some time, then Google will come back less frequently which will impact your traffic potential from natural search. With major websites, updating hourly, »

Both Microsoft and Apple have delivered major announcements this week. The Windows 8 device and the iPad Mini are both important launches for their companies and for the consumer. Both Windows 8 operating system and tablet are hoped to push Microsoft back into the frame after the mobile dominance of Apple. However, a new report from website monitoring company Pingdom points to a continued Microsoft dominance of desktop web browsing.    With »