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Firstly, let me point out that I am not a Lost fan, I am still yet to sit through an entire episode and as a result was left bewildered this morning at the fact my colleague felt compelled to wake up at the crack of dawn on 24th May (on a Monday of all days) to watch the globally aired last ever episode at 5am – Then sit on a Lost Forum for another few hours.

After partaking in some universal questioning of his sanity, one thing has become clearer as the day has progressed… (more…)

As Andy posted a while ago in “Has google shot itself in the foot over UK serps?”He mention that the search “Southbank Restaurants” returned not restaurants in London’s south bank as you would imagine, but Melbourne results. This included a map of the Melbourne southbank – even when you did a search in Google UK, UK search only.  So what’s the update on this almost a year on: (more…)

Today the British public will vote in their masses in the 2010 General Election, but who is winning the key battles online? Conservatives, Labour and The Liberal Democrats go head to head (to head?) in what could be one of the closest elections of all time. With search evolving dramatically since the last election in 2005, voters can now view breaking news stories through real time search – whilst keeping upto date with trends using Social Media platforms such as Twitter. The following blog post aims to identify the parties that are taking the online battle seriously and the news websites that are ‘winning those seats’.

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Having been blessed by scorching sunshine over the past week in Lanzarote, I returned home last night to find that Matt Cutts had delivered yet another Google Webmaster entry that discusses the state of Google’s UK SERPs. Back in June 2009 there was a major shake up in the Google UK that saw the inclusion of non relevant foreign websites that were ranking ahead of UK specific website. The timing of the video could not have been any better, considering only last week I noticed a number of strange results in the Movies sector..

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As the election draws nearer I thought it would be nice to see who is being searched the most in Google – and which political leader and political party is earning the most searches on the internet as the election campaign goes on. Searches obviously don’t mean votes (thank goodness, see first chart), but it shows the impression a person has had on the public – negatively and positively. (more…)

We all know Google is a behemoth of a company, but how much does the search engine Google earn, what is its revenue, how many people search on Google every day, how many people search on google every year and some history about Google.   (more…)

Will Facebook Secure a Social Media Monopoly?
News of Facebook being awarded the patent for news feed technology earlier this week is understandably causing much speculation regarding its possible implications for other social networking giants such as Twitter, Myspace and the brand new Google Buzz. (more…)

Back in May 2009 Bing’s Webmaster Spokesman told us that:

“We are busy adding upgraded and updated technologies to provide better search results. That’s good news for you!” (more…)

Last month Google announced they would be supporting the canonical tag across cross domain platforms. The canonical tag has been supported since February for both internal URLs and subdomains. However, today I noticed that Google was returning a subdomain and a root domain with the same content, even though the subdomain has a canonical tag pointing to the content on the main domain.

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