The Samaritans are a UK charity that provide counselling over the phone to anyone that calls at any time. Google has decided to give them a free slot on the site in response to identifying increased searchers for “suicide” in their search engine. Here is how it looks (could change in the future, when you are reading...
Just spotted a new Google search feature – Wonder Wheel. After typing in your search term you can press “Wonder Wheel” down the left hand side. It shifts the search results to the right and gives your a wheel of options, alternative searches. You can then click one, it will display results for that...
Just seen the new Google search feature that shows website previews (screenshot) in the results. You have to click a little magnifying glass, then it opens a page previews. I first heard about it over at Fudwatch.co.uk 4 days ago, but at the time I was not seeing the results. It may still be...
This is currently the slogan on a Google Places advert that is running all over the web at the moment. Do You Own A Business? Be Found on Google for Free Google Places is a good way to get found on Google, and it does not cost you anything than the time to set...
This method is guaranteed to get your website onto the first page of the Google results, if you are already on the top 100 results. It is a cunning SEO’s trick that uses the features of the Google configuration settings to make your site (or any website you like!) appear on the first page...
I have just been analysing the stats in Google Webmaster tools for one of my sites and just spotted a very suspicious trend. Between 4th Sept and 4 Oct 2010 one site received 2400 Google search referrals on 16 occasions. Each time the number of search impressions varied. Also, it received 1900 search referrals...
What? Google helps Black Hat SEOs? Yep! As a result of accidentally blocking Google from crawling my site I saw a lot of other sites appear in the SERPs that had copied my content, illegally, without permission etc. etc. Now, I had gone to the effort to block IP addresses of websites that copied...
The biggest news on Google this week is the reports that Eric Schmidt told the Register that Google does not do data mining. BritBloke from FUD Watch decided to do a little research and found some interesting results. One a Google search for “Google doesn’t do data mining ?” there is one Adwords advert...
Trying to get some help on a Google product and their whole support are – www.google.com/support/forum/ – is currently offline. Just one simple error message: Not Found Error 404 Annoying. Who do we ask for help now? Hopefully this is just a minor blip and not a sign that Google is having a major...
OK, so everyone is excited about this new Google live search thing. Results appear as you type them! Woooot! But, it is always broken. Whenever I search in the old way (type and enter…) I get annoying pauses and treated to a white screen. This I could just about put up with. Today I...
I just got this message when using Google search: We’re sorry… … but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now. I just learnt about some new commands for search, specifically allintitle: and allintext: I did a few searches of allintitle: but...
News just in the Google has bought an online travel firm. ITA was set up in 2007 by a group of IT developers in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Google have paid $700 million for the company. They plan to integrate the ITA travel information within their own search results in the same way that some retail...
How is this possible? Today I witness the publication online of a new article on a health and fitness website. The article was about how diet can help reduce hay fever symptoms. What I witnessed was shocking. The main Adsense advert on the page was for a popular anti-histamine drug. For this advert to...
Google have got into the spirit of the World Cup. Google “World Cup” and then scroll down….. More useful are the search results for “World Cup” though, as they display all the groups plus the first two games. Here is a screen shot of the results for a search on “World Cup” at the...
Google have announced on their Blogspot blog that their latest major Search Algorithm update, Caffeine, is not fully live and on all servers. From now on, Google search is even better than the competition. It is faster and indexes more sites at a greater level. Google are so excited about this news that they...
(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!).
