January 20, 2008 – 4:25 pm
Looks like Google has removed Google news suggest. Google news suggest could be activated by adding &complete=1 to the end of the news sarch URL. Having done this, you could get a list of popular queries based on what you type into the search box, similar to to Google suggest.
This was a handy little tool, [...]
January 6, 2008 – 5:03 pm
2007 has witnessed the most significant advances in online communication and connectedness. This was the year when marketers started to embrace and felt a little threatened by social networks. IT wasn’t really about technology – but the coming to fruition of many of the ideas and desires to connect.
But during this year, one thing [...]
January 6, 2008 – 4:11 pm
I love reading about new patent applications but rarely comment on the direct impact on search. As everyone knows, there’re lots of reasons to protect intellectual property, and most rarely get used.
But the one just granted to Google for extracting text from images looks like the real deal. The number of uses are almost unlimited [...]
January 6, 2008 – 3:50 pm
Wasn’t sure if I wanted to get involved with this argument, but there are a couple of interesting factors worth watching.
Over the holidays, the unofficial Google blog, made a bold statement – Google ‘artificially’ promotes recent blog posts.
Not sure about ‘artificially’ as that would mean there’s a regular algorithm governed by some universal natural [...]
December 7, 2007 – 9:46 pm
Just a few years ago, Google used to treat a subdomain as a completely different site to the main domain. Then things got a little blurred. Some factors like trust could be inherited by the subdomain but some folk thought the folders had a slight edge.
Subdomain certainly had other advantages – you could have [...]
December 3, 2007 – 12:56 am
While this is only an experiment openID commenting, I’m sure it will rollout as a standard not just across Blogger but most blogging platforms and social networks. Or at least it should. The implications are huge, from just allowing an easy way to comment on other people’s blogs to more sophisticated ways to remove blog [...]
December 3, 2007 – 12:46 am
I’m seeing a cleanup on adwords listings for link sellers. On some phrases like ‘buy links’ and ‘text links’ there’re no more ads. Though still plenty for ‘links’. If this is here to stay then about time.
Now all Google has to do is to stop bought links from working and we should see them out [...]
December 3, 2007 – 12:45 am
Just been reading Matt Cutts on pay per post. He points out that this is definitely against the Google guidelines, but takes an interesting angle, kind of appealing to the humanity in people.
Pointing out a pay per post review of a cancer treatment site and asking how you’d feel if you or a family [...]
November 29, 2007 – 10:00 pm
During a recent in interview with a journalist I was asked to consider the current state of Google, especially in light of link Spam and Google’s efforts to combat something that’s getting a little out of hand.
The last time I felt that Google was this open to abuse was probably ‘just’ before the Florida [...]
November 6, 2007 – 2:45 pm
Google has finally added a geo-targeting feature to their webmaster tools. They’ve been threatening this for a while – now you can chose the target country for your site, without having to move hosting or localising domains.