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A new look for Nilhan’s Kocchi Kade
After many months trawling through hundreds of WordPress themes, I settled on this one. I really liked the simplicity of the last one but it was time for a change and I wanted more flexibility have a little play.
A big shout out to all the talented folk at DailyBlogTips for creating this theme. Really […]
Twitter Updates for 2008-04-23
Another wet day in Brighton - must find stronger coffee #
Complex networks and decentralized search algorithms - now stop right there #
how about this for a piss-take - type in ‘vrm whitepaper’ into Google and it says ‘ did you mean ‘CRM white paper’ #
promissed I wouldn’t but here I am slagging off everyone in […]
Did the Holiday Inn just get lucky?
On a search for ‘Holiday in Paris’ I got this map box filled entirely with links to various Holiday Inn local listings.
Kevin Bacon and the impact of offline on online - part 2
A few days ago I blogged about a Kevin Bacon YouTube video which was mentioned on the Graham Norton show. The video had 1800 views prior to the TV show, and the following morning it had 8000+ views.
Now five days later it has just under 30,000 views. We can assume that the first jump […]
Previous Query refinement coming to natural results
Somehow managed to miss this when Danny Sullivan mentioned it a few days ago. But the rumour is Google is going to start personalising results based on the previous query. This is something that’s been going on in paid for many months, but I think the implications are much greater for natural search.
With personalised […]
Kevin Bacon YouTube video on Graham Norton
On Graham Norton last night Kevin Bacon pointed out this video of him on YouTube
As the TV program ended there were 1800 views. Today there’s over 8000. Was expecting more from TV, but not bad
Google to provide opt-out options for secondary search box
According to a Google representative in the UK, they plan to allow an option in your webmaster tools which will give you control over the secondary search box.
This has been debated to death ever since it appeared with little consensus. So, an opt out seems to be the best option
Google testing in-site search box on brand searches: leaves a funny smell
If you haven’t seen it then it looks like this
At first glance seems like another useful addition by Google. Except on closer inspection this is not a search box for products or holidays in this case provided by Virgin, but a search box for other pages on the site. Same as the one in the […]
VRM Hub meeting in London
If you didn’t get a chance to come up to this time then Adriana Lukas and Ian Delaney has great write ups. If you really have no idea what I’m talking about then you should look up the VRM project wiki and the VRM one-pager on Adriana’s blog.
This should be a regular monthly, so look […]
IAB Engage for search 2008
I’ve always had huge respect for the IAB and Guy Phillips, so was delighted to have the opportunity to speak at their annual search event.
The subjects covered by the various speakers were diverse ranging from analysing offline to online behaviour to the emergence of mobile. Unfortunately I was still travelling up from Brighton during the […]
