Tuesday, 30 March 2010

Top 50 UK e-retailers

The sixteenth quarterly edition of the IMRG-HITWISE HOT SHOPS LIST provides a unique insight into the top 50 UK e-retailers, based on February 2010 rankings.

The leading four brands retained their dominance of the UK online shopping scene: Amazon.co.uk (1), Argos (2), Play (3) & Apple Computer (4). Amazon.com (5), Tesco (6) & John Lewis (8) all moved up one place with Easyjet (10) entering the top 10 by moving up 2 places. Marks & Spencer (7) fell two places and Next (9) dropped a single place.

The biggest movers this quarter were: Thomas Cook (15) moving up thirty one positions, British Airways (31) moved up eleven places, The Trainline (24) and Thomson Holidays (11) both climbed ten.

Source: Experian Hitwise

Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Chrome offers automatic translation of websites

Google's new version of its web browser, Chrome, offers automatic translation of websites, as well as enhanced privacy controls.
 
Users will be able to specify that they want every web page they visit to appear in a certain language, also to set privacy controls that are specific to individual websites. 

Visit the Google 'Chrome' page to find out more.