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Home > News and Views > Newsletter NewslettersKeep up to date with the latest Search and Internet Marketing news from LBi's SEO Technical and Research Teams. April 201021st May 2010 Facebook launches its alternative vision of the web at F8. Also this month: Google makes site speed a factor in its search rankings; Apple to launch iAd; Twitter launches Promoted Tweets; AOL to sell or close Bebo; Google PageRank update; Silverlight 4 launched; and Google goes on an acquisition spree. March 201031st March 2010 Google moves out of China to ... Hong Kong! Also this month: Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 9 preview; Google opens its long awaited App Store; Facebook overtakes Google as the most visited website in the US; Google allowed to use trademarks in AdWords ads in Europe; online news overtakes print newspapers in the US; LBi research into site hierarchies in Google; and all the latest market share updates. February 201028th February 2010 EU opens preliminary antitrust enquiries into Google; EU & US approve the Microsoft-Yahoo! deal; Bing & Facebook expand partnership; Google updates its real-time search; Google Buzz launches to mixed reviews; and Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser loses market share in Europe after a security scare. January 201031st January 2010 Google hacked, threatens to pull out of China. Also this month: Apple may put Bing on the iPhone and Google launches the "Googlephone"; Google expands social search for all signed-in users; Microsoft expands search deal with HP; and Google Chrome now the world's number 3 web browser. December 200931st December 2009 Google launches cross-domain canonical link element and extends personalised search to all users. Also this month: Newly independent AOL lays off one third of its staff; Google and Yahoo! launch real-time search; Australia filters the web; Microsoft and EU agree on browser ballot screen; Google updates its Toolbar PageRank; and we show you the top searches of 2009. November 200930th November 2009 Google goes shopping - buys AdMob, Gizmo5 & Teracent. Also this month: Bing localises for the UK market and partners with Wolfram|Alpha; Google and Bing make changes to their search results pages; Google Caffeine edges closer to release; Yahoo! dips toes in real-time search; and research about the long tail of search and how Google treats non-HTML files. October 200931st October 2009 Twitter strikes deals with Bing and Google to get its real-time content integrated more into the search engines. Also this month: ICANN approves Internationalised Domain Names; Google launches Social Search, Music Search and lots of mobile offerings; Wolfram|Alpha opens up its API; Ask launches a deal-finding website; and Sweden (briefly) falls off the Internet. September 200929th September 2009
August 200931st August 2009 Google Caffeine Update, Eric Schmidt leaves board of Apple, Google to buy On2, Facebook buys FriendFeed, more cashback for Bing Shopping may be working, Microsoft and Nokia team up, Wolfram|Alpha team up with Bing, and the most satisfying search engine is... July 200931st July 2009 Yahoo and Microsoft search deal, Google Chrome OS, Bing includes Twitter results, multiple Google Toolbar PageRank Updates, Microsoft and the European Commission. |