Google Plus was on the BBC News just now, but I missed what the main story was. Sounded like it was rolling out today! One thing that still bugs me about The Google Social Plus + Circling Thing, is why don’t they just call it Google? I am sure that the average Internet user...
Over at the Google blog they are reminiscing a little today. Their latest article, Evolving the Google design and experience, talks about how the core Google service, its search engine, has changed since it first went live in 1997. OK, it does not really talk about that. It talks about the changes which it is...
Since around 1999 people have been typing questions into Google only to be confronted with a list of websites which may possibly contain the answer. Google has got rather good at picking the right website and will sometimes even chose a page description which shows that it has found some information which may really help...
Google has struck a deal with the British Library to “digitise” (scan and upload) all out of copyright works that the British Library holds. Google and the British Library plan to scan 250,000 texts from the 18th and 19th centuries to bolster the British Library’s digital collection. The British Library already has 1.25 million...
This is a blog on a title. While chatting about the use or rel=”me” and rel=”author” (and also implementing it on my web design / pro-blogger profile) that classic old The Who song came to my mind, “The Real Me?”. That was several hours ago now and I have totally failed to remove the...
I decided to have a play with adding the new Google Author Rel=”author” attribute to WordPress. It is really very simple to do with WordPress out of the box, although an old plugin is needed for a basic set up to work, but it is a one click install and activate job (UPDATE –...
Google has announced a new tool, its Authorship Markup which uses the rel= attribute. This is designed to match content to authors on a website, although there is no indication at the moment if it will act as “proof” of ownership as obviously anybody could implement it on their website for all their content....
Google has taken an extra step towards its unofficial war against affiliates. To aid the consumer Google will soon be able to help people to find flights and holiday by using its search engines and then link direct to the checkout pages of airlines and holiday companies. For many years affiliates have run successful...
Gmail have announced that they are soon rolling out new adverts for Gmail users. The 3 main changes are: Fewer irrelevant ads Gmail’s importance ranking applied to ads Offers and coupons for your local area Fewer irrelevant ads is always a good thing for advertisers. It does pose the question – how are they determining relevance?...
Another bit if Google Social Media Circle is out today, the Plus 1 / +1 recommendation button in search. Basically, when you search now you may see a little +1 button next to the result. If you like the result, you hit the button to share with friends. I assume that it is shared...
Just in from Google, another Japanese Earthquake / Tsunami blog. This one is an album of before and after photos of towns and villages hit by the tsunami. “In response to the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan, we’ve worked with our satellite imagery providers to get the latest available data of the...
I am subscribed to the latest updates from the official Google blog, and to be honest, as much as I try to be enthusiastic about what Google does, often I find it a little over my head or just a bit boring. But not today. The email that came through today mentioned the quake...
Another video of Google’s search expert Matt Cutts. In this one he provides tips to “make a great site” but speaks mostly about simple SEO. Once again he supports WordPress, and basically says that if you use WordPress you do not need to do anything else, as it is great for SEO. At the...
This is from 2007, but all still relevant today. Note, WordPress 3.1 is out now. But the other information is still relevant to small business owners today. Key Google Tips: Content is King – writing good content helps Always think about what users will type – have all the options on a page Provide...
This video is about 2 1/2 years old, but I just stumbled across it on YouTube. Interesting to see how the Webmaster Support team work, how laid back they all are, and nice to know that they are often there reading the problems, even if not always replying. Also nice to see that Matt...
(in case you are wondering why there is such a big banner showing "Weboligist" here, let me explain - it is to prevent the image below appearing every time a page is shared on Facebook!).
