Since Bing and the Goog

{Update: The PM option is back but feel free to suggest other features you'd like to see here!}

Worldwide, digital ad spending passed the $100-billion mark for the first time last year, according to new eMarketer estimates, and will increase by a further 15.1% in 2013 to $118.4 billion

Twitter's UK operation has filed it's annual accounts and it shows a meagre £16,500 profit.

Via our sister site, Webmasterworld, I found out how Twitter build their algorithms with real people to define & refine relevancy

My good friend and occasional drinking buddy Judith Lewis writes at HuffPo and calls for regulation and sta

Rhys is an SEO that codes. He codes so well he created the well known plugin, WP EMail Capture that many people use, but that's an aside.

It's probably a bit early to start chiseling Facebook's tombstone, but according to a Mediapost report Tumblr is actually used more than Facebook by 10th graders. 

Back in the day Threadwatch was more like a men's club.  There were like 5 women regulars?  Something pathetic like that.

Hey Team, 1st off, super excited TW is back!Can you add a local search category since local is such a big piece of the puzzle now?

Thanks, Linda

Since we have almost caught up with Google, let's remember what was going on in social:

Google's doodle has become much more common since Larry became CEO again and today, for the UK at least, Google is showing a fantastic doodle celebrating the 150th anniversary of the London Tube Ne

In the last few years since Threadwatch has been having a holiday there have been a lot of changes.

Andy Beal has posted on a superb piece of work by Lunametrics  showing every

There's no way to list all Google updates and news since Threadwatch was closed in one post, but here's what we remember:

At least we've still got bollocks!

bollocks has always been the essence of this place and people will revolt if you take heir bollocks away

Matt Cutts, a senior software engineer for Google, says that piling links onto a competitor's site to reduce its search rank isn't impossible, but it's extremely difficult."

I saw his last night its now on slashdot and search engine land.

Google Vs MS

I guess this is the official reason

In summary:

After taking a random sample of 600 Wikipedia articles, 96.67% are in Google's top 10 for their title.