Google’s Birthday, Celebs Saving The World & Making The Brylcreem Ad
Well, it has been a very busy week & we’ve been a bit slack on the blog because of that. Matters haven’t been helped by the fact that New Media Age were buying me drinks all last night at the Bladdered Again event. Anyway, to make up for that we thought that we would share […]
Google Kills Video: Will Its Reputation Go With It?
The ever excellent Guardian Technology supplement has a very interesting piece in it today about the closure of the paid for service on Google Video. It seems that Google is in the process of putting all its efforts into YouTube (much like Yahoo!, which closed its pictures site to concentrate on Flickr). This in itself […]
Will 2007 Be The Year Google Overtakes ITV?
I wrote the other day about the various predictions for when online advertising would overtake print in the US & in that post I mentioned that it seemed like that line had already been crossed in the UK.
Well, it now looks like the UK could beat the US in crossing another major line: the one […]
Are you being Go-ogled?
I discovered something last night, something about my Google account…
It’s been watching me…
It knows where I’ve been…
I am, of course, referring to Google’s “Web History” feature, a feature that is apparently designed to help you manage your web activity and get results more relevant to me when I search. So they’re using my web history […]
100 Tips To Improve Your Life
It seems as though every blog and his/her mother are creating these top ten, 50 best, 1000 greatest articles. They’re old tried and tested ways of engaging your readers or viewers, creating conversation and reaction. I’ve listed a few of the recent ones on this blog, but here’s another one!
100 Tips to Improve Your Life
This […]
Do Gala Need Some Guidance On The Google Guidelines?
Today I was searching for “Bingo” on Google only to find a little surprise waiting for me on the first page of the SERPs. After looking at it for 30 seconds I realised that there was something strange the results. It seems like one of the UK’s biggest bingo brands, Gala Bingo, has two entries […]
Google’s Not Perfect On Privacy, But It’s Not That Bad
A recent report on how companies deal with their users’ privacy has been attracting a lot of attention, especially the fact that it ranked Google as the worst offender in terms of data protection. That claim seems to have been accepted by most of the mainstream media, but is not being treated so lightly in […]
Are Toyota breaking the Google Webmaster Guidelines?
It might not be malicious, but whilst looking at the Toyota website today I noticed that they may well be breaking the webmaster guidelines (albeit not as blatantly as BMW did).
Their homepage re-directs using javascript (presumably for tracking purposes) but looking at the source, just under the javascript you may notice the following:
<body bgcolor=”#ffffff” […]
Legoland and Google maps
I managed to get a few tickets to Legoland for this weekend and decided that as the weather is picking up it would be nice to take the kids (aged 4 and 2) for an outing.
Imagine my concern however when I try and use google maps to get directions and am told that the journey […]
Some Perspective On Yahoo’s Chase Of Google
e-consultancy reports on the latest Hitwise stats showing that in 2006 Yahoo! increased its share of the UK search market by 13% to 8.6%, with the headline:
Yahoo! shows biggest UK search share gains.
Which is fine.
But with Google also increasing its share to a staggering 78%, it’s like me writing an article on how recent promotions […]
