The online industry news has been dominated over the past month by Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo!. The move came at the start of the month and although Yahoo! quickly rejected the move, Microsoft’s intentions have now been made clear and there has been plenty of speculation on what the likely implications will be for the market and, in particular, the search sector.

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Recent research by eMarketer has revealed the huge reach of internet use and confidence in ecommerce amongst the UK population.

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One of the most discussed and possibly hyped topics of 2007 was the continued rise of social networking sites, such as Facebook. However, recent news coverage of this sector now seems to be declaring that the popularity of social networking may be on the decline.

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