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Lost Finale – Forum Internet Searches On Google

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

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…)

Southbank Restaurants Melbourne – no thanks…

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

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…)

Election 2010 online: Which websites are winning the key battles

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

10 downing streetToday 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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Google UK SERPs update from Matt Cutts

Friday, April 30th, 2010

google-logoHaving 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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Who’s winning the 2010 election on Google?

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

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…)

Google Facts…

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

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…)

Facebook Secures News Feed Patent

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

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…)

Bing slow at updating whilst Google enters new speed realm

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

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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…)

Isn’t Google supposed to adhere to the canonical tag?

Friday, January 15th, 2010

google-logoLast 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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