Who Is Big Brother?
Although it seems like only a couple of weeks ago since the last series ended, it would appear that Big Brother is back. Yes, in what is now a better indicator of the imminent start of the British summer than washed out test matches, the new series of Big Brother started last night.
Being the search […]
The 100 Best Technology Products. Really?
PC World has released a list of the 100 Best Products of 2007 and despite the fact that it feels a little premature seeing as it’s not even June yet it makes interesting reading. Whilst a lot of it is too geeky even for me, I though I’d pull out a few of the more […]
Bank Holiday Search Round Up
Well, the bank holiday is almost upon us, but before we at eyefall leave the office to tend to gardens and the like, we thought we’d give you or view on the big stories in search right now.
Yahoo! to be bought by Microsoft? We first saw this story early today and didn’t think it was […]
Are The Search Engines Really Looking To Get Into SEM?
Google is going to buy DoubleClick, which includes search marketing company Performics. And whilst Yahoo! has also said that it wants to buy an ad-serving company, MSN is apparently going to go exactly the same path as Google and buy an ad management company, 24/7 Real Media which also offers search marketing.
Danny Sullivan does a […]
Don’t Let Other People Steal Your Marketing Budget
As it attempts to resurrect the success of its early years, Ask is running a billboard advertising campaign in the US, with ‘mysterious’ slogans such as:
THE ALGORITHM CONSTANTLY FINDS JESUS, THE ALGORITHM KILLED JEEVES & (in a clear dig at Google) THE ALGORITHM IS BANNED IN CHINA.
I’m sure that the marketing team at […]
Does Anyone Still Think YouTube Wasn’t Value For Money?
As everyone knows by now, last year saw Google’s acquisition of video upload site, and Web 2.0 standard bearer, YouTube for $1.65 billion (about £890 million). Since then the general consensus of opinion has often appeared to be that Google were simply throwing money away.
I’ve always felt that if Google can make $3.66 billion in […]
Microsoft vs. Google
Anyone looking at the world of internet business in the late 90s would probably have laughed at the suggestion that within 10 years Microsoft would be thought of as the little guy in a David & Goliath style struggle. But that is exactly what Google has managed to.
Two Gartner analysts have explained exactly how this […]
Google Bomb Hasn’t Been Defused
Any of you familiar with the world of search engine optimisation will know of the process known as Google Bombing. This is where a web page is pushed to the top of Google’s search rankings for a phrase that has nothing to do with the page’s content, and doesn’t appear anywhere on that page.
This was […]
Google Doesn’t Like Paid Links
Google’s chief spam cop, Matt Cutts, has talked about a new way for webmasters to report sites they thing are buying or selling paid links. Why would Google do this? Essentially Google feel that people who use paid links to increase their rankings in the search engines should be identified and have their rankings adjusted […]
New Google Webmaster Tools Functionality
Search Engine Land report that Google has added new functionality to it’s Webmaster Tools suite (or Google Sitemap as it’s more commonly know).
This will allow site owners to remove individual URLs from Google’s index, so long as they have a Webmaster Tools account set up & have verified their ownership of the site in question.
As […]
