The First Signs of Recovery Came Early After being struck down by Panda on April 11th 2011 I got to work and made a whole bunch of on-site changes. I made a small recovery quickly, however, soon learned that there was still a lot of work to do. Apr 19, 2011 Glad to report...
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?...
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...
News just in from Mashable.com – Eric Schmidt is stepping down to allow Larry Page to take the driving seat at Google. Eric Schmidt will become Google’s chairman. The news was released today as Google announced its fouth quarter profits. According to Reuters, analysts expect $6.06 bln in Q4 net revenue. This is twice...
News just in that Google has bought eBook Technologies and its team to help bolster its own ebookstore. eBook Technologies provided the hardware and software for reading ebooks, but it was never a hugely successful business, not being able to fight the might Amazon and Kindle. On their website they now say: “eBook Technologies,...
Google has announced that it has made 4 new changes to its instant search feature to combat the growing abuse of search by the media pirates. This follows lobbying by the music industry. The changes include remove specific words, such as Torrent, BitTorrent and free download from the autocomplete feature in Google search. However,...
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 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...
Google are recruiting younger talent in a bid to maintain their competitive advantage during these difficult times. When we asked the new director what changes he was planning to implement during 2009, he responded with; “Google google ooooh google bear nana nana.” – New Google Search Engine Operations Director
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...
What a nightmare. A warning to all here: Do Not Try To Upload Too Many Photos to Facebook At Once I was attempting to upkload about 6 or 7 photos to Facebook from my phone and it just died on me. It got pretty hot, gave some memory warnings, then crashed. I tried rebooting...
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...
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