All articles by Andrew Barber
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Blogs+1 your business with Google Plus
Google Plus (or Google+) is the search giants own social media platform which was launched in June of last year. It is estimated to be getting around an additional 625,000 new users each day and is changing the way Google works and how businesses are promoting their goods and services. ...
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Read all about it.
If nothing else, the arrest of the Tchenguiz brothers on the 9th of March illustrated just how deeply digital communication has become embedded in the property sector. One of my abiding memories of MIPIM 2011 will be the astonished conversations that morning, most of which seemed to start with the ...
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Warning: Google targets “low quality” websites.
In the past week Google, the world’s favourite search engine, has made some “pretty big” changes to its search algorithm in a move targeting “low quality” websites and punishing them by reducing their search engine rankings.
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Google Instant - online search just became faster
Google has introduced an enhanced service - "Google Instant" aimed at speeding up our online searches.
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Online search - the biggest business story of the next decade?
The BBC's Rory Cellan Jones suggests that the battle between the old and new models of online search "is going to be one of the biggest business stories of the next decade". If so - what will be the impact on the marketing of commercial property and the ...
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The ups and downs of online search
The volume of online searches conducted on Google that relate to commercial property in the UK have leveled out in recent months - but do undelying trends within the figures point to what the market is doing?
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Google launches property search in the UK
Google has launched a property search facility in the UK
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BlogsGoogle's new search engine. Time to wake up and smell the coffee.
Google, the world's favorite search engine, has in the past week announced the launch of its new search engine, which it is calling "Caffeine".
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Does utopia resemble a hotel lobby?
With politics dominating the media over the past few weeks the recent publication of a report by Microsoft suggesting that organisations must adopt a ‘hybrid’ model of operation to remain “responsive to change” caught my eye - offering some light relief from the shenanigans of Westminster. My first thought ...
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Google’s Real Estate Search in the UK – it’s coming sometime (soon maybe?)
Back in January I wrote on these pages about reports that Google was turning its attention to the UK property market and the rumours that it was looking to bring its “Real Estate Search” to these shores following its introduction in the USA and Australia. Around that time it was ...
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Shed loads of online property searches (and things to look out for).
“Shed Shifters” reading this will be pleased to learn that the search levels on Google for industrial, warehousing and manufacturing properties are currently enjoying a bit of a surge, with the volume of searches in this sector during February reaching levels not seen since the first quarter of 2009. The ...
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Online property searches and the buzz about Google
In my last blog on these pages I wrote about a spike in the number of online searches regarding retail property conducted between Christmas and the New Year. Sadly, for all retail agents and landlords, I have to report that this surge was not sustained far into January and interest ...
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No festive hangover for online property searches
Over the past few weeks every man and his dog seems to have been speculating on what we can look forward to in the New Year and even the next decade. Those who know me well would tell you that I often have difficulty foreseeing what I am going ...
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“Real-Time” Search and the property market
Harold Wilson was once attributed with saying: “A week is a long time in politics”. Over the past week this could also be said of the world of search engines - as first Google and then, just days later, Yahoo announced that they were both launching “real-time” ...
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Search engines – Property - Something Digital – Blah, Blah, Blah
Everyone knows about Google. Most of us use it on a daily basis and each time we do the phrases and words that we use are recorded and collated by the world’s favourite search engine. This information is then made available to businesses and individuals choosing to advertise on Google ...
