Once again the banking malware BankBot has been discovered lurking in Andoid apps in the Google Play shop reports ZD Net. BankBot is not nice and rather clever. It is designed to steal your banking credentials and payment information. It tricks users into handing over their bank details by presenting an overlay window which looks
Google set to launch Google Home on April 6th priced at £129 Google originally launched its Home speaker and assistant back in November in the US, and the search giant is already bringing it to other countries. Today sees the launch of Google Home in the UK, a natural expansion market for an English speaking
Apple is pressing ahead with the development of an Echo-like smart-home device based on the Siri voice assistant, according to a report in Bloomberg. They report that the project started more than two years ago and has exited the R&D stage and is now in prototype testing. Like Amazon’s Echo, the device is designed to control
We get asked all the time “How to make my website #1 in Google” and “How does Google rankings work”. These are two great questions with complex answers. First thing to remember is that the Google ranking system is a) Super complex, b)Secret and c) Changes all the time. The short answer is that the
As reported by Search Engine Watch yesterday, Google will no longer be showing ads on the right hand side of its search results pages. This change began on 19 February, and now many search results pages are looking a little bare: Google will now just show ads at the top and bottom of search results page.
Seems that the EC is hell bent on knocking Google down and beating them up with intent to cause serious harm. Just as they did with Microsoft and the browser wars, that achieved very little for consumers and a large fine for Microsoft. Our friends in Brussels overwhelmingly backed a motion on Thursday urging anti-trust regulators
A richer hashtag experience in Google Search An interesting update from Google on the growing importance and use of the now ubiquitous # or hashtag. From a post yesterday by Google researcher Zaheed Sabur on enhancements to the search engine rules. The #hashtags you see in Google+ posts are a useful way to discover conversations
Hummingbird flys With the incessant growth of the World Wide Web and the gazillions of searches asked by the billions of users Google has revamped its algorithms. The way people search is changing, so Google has overhauled its logic to better deal with the vague, rambling questions we bombard it with. The new “Hummingbird” update
SEO Thought for the week As part of our role as advising clients on Digital Marketing we virtually always get asked how you get to the top on Google. We always respond with – it depends and this starts a conversation about site designs, rankings, key words and of course SEO. Part of any engagement
Google reports and misses expectations. Hot on the heels of Microsoft miss, Google just reported Q2 results short of Wall Street’s estimates as weakening prices for ad Words and widening losses from its Motorola mobile phone business weighed on the bottom line. The falling ad prices surprised analysts and investors, who expected recent changes to
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