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Search engine market share in the US – June results

As expected nielsonwire reports Google was the top search site in June, with almost 2/3rds of the search market share of all US searches during the month. Google has lost 1.1% share over the past year according to their figures, but there is some movement between Bing and Yahoo compared to May. Bing has picked [...]

New web site for @ web one

Well you can see by the change in our blog site here, that something is happening. The look here gives a clue to what is coming Update 14 July Our new website is being has been launched by Friday today. If you are in Nelson and find an obvious typo in our site at www.web1.co.nz, [...]

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Bad web design practices, that will hurt your site getting found in major search engines

Came across a check list in Search Engine Land that may help regular viewers of our blog. We would like to reinforce to our clients and potential clients that we don’t use any of the worst practices talked of by the author Stephen Spencer. Maybe that is why our clients get found so well in [...]

Still got internet explorer 6? Time to let it go

Microsoft internet explorer version 6 is now 9 years old. Earlier versions were absolutely hopeless as a browser, but ver 6 was the first of their better versions. While versions 7 and 8 have been even better, they still cause issues for us web developers because IE still does not comply with css standards. We [...]

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winners of @ web one email marketing packages

We are pleased to announce the following have won our Email marketing package promotion which closed this morning David Bell of Glendenings and our client winner was Alan Kirby of MS Ford Our congratulations to both of you. The competition, invited readers of the Nelson Mail feature Taking care of Business published last Thursday night [...]

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83 percent of New Zealanders internet users

The second survey by the World Internet Project from the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) has been published. Highlights were: The number of internet users rose form 79% in 2007 to 83% in 2009 Broadband usage jumped to 82% compared with 67% in 2007 The proportion of users that use their mobile phones to access [...]

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Phishers – what are they and what do they do

Computerworld reported this morning (their London correspondent Carrie-Ann Skinner) that cybercriminals are expanding the types of organisations they exploit in phishing attacks. This got my attention. Well done Carrie-Ann It appears that a record number of brands (356) were hijacked in phishing attacks during October last year – a whopping 4.4 % increase (0ver the [...]

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