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Unite Take On M&S With AdWords. Why Waste The Budget?

It was reported this afternoon that the union Unite is planning to use Google AdWords as part of its campaign to highlight what it believes are poor employment practices on the part of Marks & Spencer. As The Guardian pointed out however (& as I discovered when I checked myself) the ads don’t […]

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Power And Google: Can A Search Engine Save The Planet?

No, this isn’t a post about Google’s huge power over the Internet, iPhones vs gPhones , data protection or Google taking over the planet. It’s about power: Google’s power, the Pope’s power, the power of politics, and the power of the individual.
On Tuesday Google announced RE<C (Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal).
Their aim is to promote […]

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Google & Gordon Brown

A post on the ever excellent SEOmoz about how well candidates for the 2008 US Presidential elections are making use of SEO got me wondering whether the politicians involved in the iminent campaign to elect a new Labour leader and deputy leader were doing any better.
When searching for the names of the three likely candidates […]

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