Merry Christmas & Happy New Year – 2014

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year – 2014

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2014 from the Minions and Chameleon Web Services

Google – Year in Search 2014

Google — Year in Search 2014

In 2014 we searched trillions of times. What do these searches say about us? Explore the Year in Search http://www.google.com/2014 and follow the conversation on #YearInSearch

Facebook Drops Bing From Search Results

facebook drop bing

The end has come to what was to a long relationship with Microsoft search. A Facebook spokesperson has confirmed this to be accurate following the report by Reuters.

Facebook is now concentrating on it own content so when you search within Facebook you will be searching actual Facebook content only.

Facebook’s Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg flagged search as one of the company’s key growth initiatives. It was suggested that in the month of August there were more than 1 billion search queries occurring on Facebook every day.

 

 

Internet star known as Grumpy Cat makes over 64 million

The Internet star known as Grumpy Cat makes over 64 million for its owner thanks to the online success.

grumpy cat internet star

This lovely cat has over 520,000 followers on Instagram and 250,000 followers on Twitter. The cats face appears on calendars, mugs and T-shirts and all this thanks to the Internet and the owners brother putting the cat on Reddit and YouTube.

In September 2012 the owner posted this video which has had more than 16,894,992 views:-

The Original Grumpy Cat!

Now a celebrity the cat appears on TV:-

The cat even has its own website:- http://www.grumpycats.com/

HTTP 203: Font Rendering

HTTP 203: Font Rendering (S1, Ep4)

There’s nothing more annoying than visiting a site and just seeing white space where the text should be, just because the web font is taking an age to load. Jake brings news of a potential improvement to the web that could help, and he also discovers that conferences are incredibly dangerous places to frequent!