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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 […]
Google video ads on search results
On Thursday Google started testing video ads on some search results pages.
Marissa Mayer explained this was in response to the impact of blended results. When video, news and images are included in regular results, the eye scans to the images first and ignores the ads.
“With universal search, something is getting shaken up a bit […]
Just another node in the graph
On Friday, Google announced the launch of their Social graph API , which promises to take us another step closer to portability. They plan to crawl our connections across social networks where profiles are public. This data can then be ported by social application developers to provide users with the choice of picking their friends […]
Is Google worried about the Microsoft takeover of Yahoo?
I really wasn’t expecting this post on the official Google blog by David Drummond. He’s certainly not a fan of the deal and points out in no uncertain terms the need for openness and Microsoft’s dodgy past on the subject. I thought at least some of his comments could be considered a little over the […]
Will Yahoo! Accept Microsoft’s offer?
After years of speculation, Microsoft has finally jumped in with what seems to be an offer too good to be true. The offer of $42 Billion which is 60% above the current share value makes it pretty serious and it doesn’t leave much room for a counter.
I’d be extremely surprised if Yahoo! turns […]
Cop in trouble for hanging out in a porn neighbourhood
A School Cop is being investigated for linking to a friend’s MySpace page containing a link to a porn site. Why? Because you could get to this porn site in just a few clicks from his profile page. Hmmm, you could get to the same page with just one click from Google.
I’m not expecting […]
