December 8, 2009 – 12:21 am
A few days ago Google made another big change to regular search results. All search results are now personalised by default. From now, we’ll see different results for the same query based on our web history. A lot of people have been getting these results when they’ve been logged into a Google account, but from [...]
Outdated knowledge or automated queries set-up back in the day
March 31, 2009 – 10:12 am
There’s been a lot of talk about Google favouring brands in search results. For me this is not new, they’ve always tried to do this. They just got better at aligning search results with public opinion as oppose to SEO’d opinion. General search results have always been about ‘trying‘ to rank the brands for commercial [...]
August 18, 2008 – 5:30 pm
Google personalised search was ramped up over a year ago and for anyone logged into Google, personalisation based on web and search history is the norm. If you want to opt out of personalisation you can either log out or turn off your history (This is turned on by default when you sign up for [...]
Monday is never a good day to be looking into new search engine algorithms, but Cuil seems to be getting a bit of attention. I’ve seen the video interview and demo and have had a chance to have a short play with it during lunch.
First thing to say about it, I hope the reason it [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here – crazy busy and not too much time to ponder. Been waiting for something to come along which would trigger fingers to keyboard. Jeff Jarvis did just that with his post proclaiming the end of SEO.
I love this topic and usually like to claim the death of [...]
For several weeks now Google results have been in a constant flux – or at least a lot more than usual. Most of the fluctuations have been too erratic to identify any common pattern. But there is something about position 4 reported by several webmaster and SEO forums which I’ve been able to confirm. [...]
One of my favourite search people ShoeMoney says SEO has no future and once again the SEO crowd goes wild. The last time this happened was when Jason Calacanis announced the death of Google – with the emergence of social search engines.
When you listen to Shoe’s argument, I think it’s a strong one and [...]
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 [...]