Microsoft have decided to step into China just a year after their arch rivals, Google, pulled out. Baidu is China’s leading search engine which currently only provides web search in Chinese. Google pulled out of China because it was not willing to allow the Chinese government to dictate what could and could not be shown in Google search...
OK, so I have now been on Goolge+ for a whole day. Or is it 2 days? Maybe 2 days. I have found my friends and added them to Friends. I have found various people I have spoken to online before, either at great length over many years or on a few random occasions,...
OK, if you have added a Google +1 button to your website you may be wondering if anyone is using it. Also, are people +1′ing your page using a browser +1 button? Well, now you can easily find out if you have your website registered in Google Webmaster Tools. There is a new menu...
Yesterday Google made another change to search. It started included authors in the search results, taking the data from the Author Authority markup which it introduced a few weeks ago. The idea is that if you search for an author by name or even the name of their blog, you will see in the search results...
Since the phrase ‘search engine optimisation’ first appeared, the task of attaining and keeping good positions in the search results has become a lot more challenging. This is due in part to the explosion of internet usage; there is simply a lot more competition on any given key-term and industry niche. The other part...
Do Google call it a “wall” or have Facebook trademarked that? I got an invite to Google+ (said “Google Plus”, which I still do not like). First impressions are that it is clean and quick. There do seem to be a few problems. The main feature is Circles. Every person that you know you...
For as long as I can remember the URL would always appear after the description in Google search. All searches in fact. Today I notice that the URL is now right below the title. This is really annoying! OK, I admit that I may adjust to the change, but at the moment it just...
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...
Tesco Plc has had a bad week. This week it migrated is online banking customers away from the RBS system which it had originally partnered with to its own system. The move was well planned and all seemed to go smoothly, but then something went wrong. Many people were unable to access their bank...
by Christoph Puetz Marketing is a difficult beast to tame. It is easy to spend a lot of money on marketing, but the results are not always there. Also, many businesses are just following the old path of using Yellow Pages and Newspaper ads to market their services – leaving a lot of other and...
Cloud computing is a growing trend in information technology (IT) and computing. Forward thinking companies understand the benefits of cloud computing, with the promise of greater mobility and cost savings. Rather than spending money on computer infrastructure, companies only need to rent space on another information system at another company. Business Advantages of Cloud...
Recently I have tried my hand at a little guest blogging. When it comes to promoting your website you can do one of three things: Wait for others to do it for you – social media Pay some SEO company to go off and do whatever they fancy, such as submit your site to...
I have been looking at ways to reduce content duplication and content theft, but cannot seem to find a way to prevent websites like AbsorbTheWeb.com from copying all my content (and ranking above me). I wrote about RSS content theft a few weeks ago and have been unable to stop it. I attempted to...
OK, yes, I am making this up as I go along. Some time ago I read that most businesses (see how vague this is already) follow a 10% rule, which means that they generate most of their revenue from just 10% of their products. I have in the past focused on this (I use...
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