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Weekly internet update

with Search Engine Optimisation consultant Pascal Fintoni.

In the news: Hitwise have released the October figures for the major search engines’ traffic. Google remains the leader with 64.49% of all US internet searches, Yahoo Search secures 21.65%, MSN Search and Ask.com accounted for 7.42% and 4.76% of searches respectively.

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen announced recently that HD-quality YouTube video will be available on the site within three months. A new player could automatically detect the speed of the viewer’s connection and play high-quality video when available reports marketingvoxnews.com.

Online shopping in Britain will total £40 billion for 2007. According to a study released by the UK comparison-shopping site uSwitch. According to this report by emarketer.com we are turning into a nation of web shoppers.

81% of nearly 1,000 respondents to the Nielsen Online Pre-Holiday Survey agreed that for shopping online convenience is the key motivating factor and not price, read the report from marketingcharts.com.

Monday 26 November is said to be the start of the online Christmas shopping season according to specialist online retailers. Have you started yet?

Plug of the week: Has anyone tried the Skypephone yet? Get in touch and let us know what you think.

Story of the week: A new study by Nemertes Research is suggesting that by 2010 the internet could start to collapse as the current investment in infrastructure is not matching the increasing demand on online services. Scaremongering or reality?

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .