This is exciting news. HP is becoming a mobile heavyweight by purchasing Palm. Not only do they get some great new products about to launch in the form of the new Plam Pre and Palm Pixie – the big coup is gaining their Web OS platform perfect ofr HP’s tablet! Read more about the purchase [...]

The New Media Age, 2010 Marketing Services guide lists Tug as 31st amongst the UK’s top search marketing agencies. With not even 4 years under our belt this is a huge coup for us and we are all very happy and motivated to keep moving up the list! It goes to prove that hard work [...]

AdMob have released their monthly mobile statistics; TechCrunch have looked into the data and worked out that Android has now passed the iPhone in terms of web traffic. Last month Android accounted for 42% and iPhone 45%, this month Android accounts for 46% and the iPhone 39%. This is expected to grow even further with [...]

Earlier Engadget reported that Google Navigation was available in the UK.  We can now confirm that this is indeed true and we have tried it out for ourselves. So far, it has only been confirmed that this works with Android 1.6 devices and above. Google Navigation is the free GPS Navigation app available for Android [...]

Google have announced the release of Google Places (previously Local Business Center) This is a new push from Google into local search and gives advertisers a number of new options including a new dashboard (similar to what you get with Google AdWords.) See below for a quote from the Google Blog and a video: “We [...]

Link generation is the primary method to increase both your search engine positioning and also your traffic. When it comes to the inbound links themselves, they can be in various formats. Ideally, you should be obtaining different types of one-way links to your websites to increase the diversity. The following are a few examples of [...]

Google Webmaster Central released a blog post on Wednesday detailing an update to their Top Search Queries feature in webmaster tools.  The update introduces clickthrough rate data and percentages based on impressions for individual search queries.  Previously the Top Searches feature simply showed the average position a website appeared for particular search terms. The new [...]

Google have introduced a new Real Time search feature which features a new Twitter timeline. With this new feature you can search for a topic and then look at a timeline for the year or month. Once you’ve chosen a date in the month you can search all the results on that day. See below [...]

TechCrunch were at the Atmosphere event earlier where Quentin Hardy (National Editor of Forbes Media) conducted an interview with Googles Eric Schmidt. TechCrunch have noted down what was said at the event, see below for a quote from TechCrunch. “Q: How do you see Google on the ground level, in those areas where despite conditions [...]

Twitter have announced their first venture into advertising; they have announced a new product called “Promoted Tweets”. This new product will allow advertisers to promote certain tweets (that they tweet from a regular twitter account) in Twitters Search Results. For example, Sony Pictures could Tweet about their new film, they then promote their tweet which [...]