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Ecommerce Expected to Grow Tremendously in Next 5 Years

According to the UK’s Global Freight Solutions (GFS), delivery companies expect to handle as many personal packages as they do business packages. Ecommerce has fundamentally transformed the role of delivery companies, and this has resulted in an increasingly complex distribution network, as many Ecommerce shoppers request that their packages be delivered to their homes instead of to businesses for pick up. The director of GFS, Simon Veale, said, “We believe the more frequent use of smartphones and tablets to buy Christmas presents online will fuel further parcel growth, and that, in turn, means home deliveries may well catch up with those destined for business customers by 2016.”

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Ecommerce Hits New Record High of $161.5 Billion in 2011 Sales

After 9 consecutive quarters of growth and 5 quarters of double-digit growth, Ecommerce sales have reached an all-time high in the fourth quarter of 2011. Retail Ecommerce stores were resoundingly successful over the holiday season, and according to a new study by comScore, these results are indicative of a larger trend for Ecommerce in 2011. Total spending in online retail stores soared to $161.5 billion in 2011, a 13% increase in growth from the year before. Q4 2011 spending also increased by 14%, suggesting that 2011 has been a very profitable year for Ecommerce vendors.

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Google Update: Changes in the Algorithm Reveal Focus on Fresher Results

Google released a new update at the tail end of January. The update, according to the Official Google Search Blog, will focus on delivering fresher results by categorizing pages based on the date they were published. Other updates include an upgraded new feature that is more sophisticated in blending news articles with organic search results on relevant topics and automated spelling corrections on commonly misspelled key phrases. They have also made several other improvements: a better related search category, improved search quality for images, and cross language refinements among them.

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