Search giant Google has recently been trialling the addition of thumbnail images within different search contexts. It has been testing

Posted by Alan Littler

In recent months, Twitter appears to have heightened its battle against fake news and hate speech. The last few weeks have seen the social media site not only wipe over 170,000 Chinese-state misinformation accounts, but also finally stand up to US President Donald Trump by fact-checking and hiding some of his tweets. However, Twitter would […]

Posted by John Murray

There is a post being shared round Facebook at the moment which not only seems harmless, it’s also seemingly helping people to promote their business websites. The post features the

Posted by Darren Jamieson

Facebook is always updating its algorithms, just as Google does. Often, we need to test and track to see what is working best and what isn’t. However, one of Facebook’s account managers has recently told one of

Posted by Lianne Wilkinson

Last week, social media giant Facebook changed the way in which its news feed algorithms rank stories, introducing a new update that prioritises original news reporting. Furthermore, as well as

Posted by Alan Littler

For quite some time now, Google has applied some degree of intuition in what it returns for search queries, meaning it looks beyond the exact words we search for. As early as 2008, Search Engine Land had noted that Google was searching for synonyms, such as returning results for ‘jog’ in a search for ‘run’. […]

Posted by John Murray

On social media, it’s no secret that people tend to like, comment and share articles they haven’t read beyond the title, but a controversy last week opens up debate about the dangers of doing this, as well as whether we should share material we don’t 100% agree with. Last week, Shadow Education Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey […]

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Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Google has been continually updating its products to ensure that businesses and customers continue to get the most out of them as everyone adapts to the everchanging nature

Posted by Alan Littler

When you set up and run Facebook ads for your business, one of the easiest mistakes to make is to direct people to the wrong page of your website from your adverts. I wrote a post a few weeks ago that went through a

Posted by Darren Jamieson

Without much fanfare at all, Google has set up a new topic curating platform called Keen, which allows users to build a customised, shareable collection of content themed around areas of interest. As tech sites like Search Engine Land and The Verge have noted, the premise behind Keen is not an entirely original one, so […]

Posted by John Murray

According to a new report, which looked at the digital news sector, Instagram is well on its way to becoming a more popular source for news than Twitter – particularly with the younger

Posted by Alan Littler

Twitter is currently experimenting with a new feature that would permit users to tweet using their voice. The feature, which has

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