Google Directs Traffic To Amazon UK

Amazon UK is a giant in its own right, but it turns out that the retailer owes a good portion of its traffic (around 25 percent) to Google.  And with one good deed deserving another, Amazon sends around ten percent of its visitors straight back to the search engine.

Turning Content Into a Valuable Keyword List

One of the comments on the article I wrote for Wordtracker mentioned WordsFinder, which allows you to create a list of keywords from a piece of content. Their tool uses the Yahoo! Term Extraction Tool, and also provides a few additional keywords next to the results. Three other easy ways to get similar information are

Yahoo Trip Planner Shows Up In The UK

For over a year, Yahoo’s Trip Planner has been available in the US; now this tool has finally found its way into Ireland and the UK.  This didn’t exactly occur on schedule, but as a “Ghostbusters” character said when the Titanic pulled into dock, “better late than never.”

Free Microsoft Works May Take On Google

Time and time again, Google has claimed that its various products and services are not intended to compete with Microsoft Office.  That’s doubtful, but in any event, Microsoft seems prepared to for the clash - a vice president has indicated that the next version of Microsoft Works will be free and ad-supported.

eBay Popular In The South

Scarborough Research, a consumer research firm has released a report that finds that eBay is popular in the South.